With kinder permission of the family Goldberg / Rüter.
The untitled photograph depicts the living room of the Goldberg family's vacation home, which was built in 1961 not far from the Uruguayan capital Montevideo in Pinamar. The interior design of the room corresponds to the purist design vocabulary of the 1960s. The pictured room opens to the pine forests surrounding the house through large windows. The interior is structured by a multi-piece seating group, which is arranged around an open fireplace. The photograph is part of an undated, six-part photography series of the cottage, consisting of various exterior views and another detailed photograph of the interior (the photographer is unknown). The vacation home had been designed by Otto Goldberg, who had fled from Austria to South America, for his family in Uruguay. Veronica Rüter (née Goldberg), daughter of Otto Goldberg, gave the Institute for the History of German Jews (IGdJ) an extensive collection of family documents for scholarly research, which includes this series of photographs. The photo not only refers to the interior architecture and room design of the vacation home, but concurrently provides insights into the Goldbergs' family history and their escape from Nazi Germany.
Photograph of the arm chair model Pinamar, probably 1960s, edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, <https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-280.en.v1> [November 21, 2024].