“Las cajas de Ámsterdam”: Margaret Michaelis y los anarquistas de la CNT-FAI en la Guerra Civil

Almudena Rubio Pérez

doi:10.70794/hs.113828

Authors

Almudena Rubio Pérez International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.113828

Keywords:

Margaret Michaelis, Photography, Spanish Civil War, , The boxes of Amsterdam

Abstract

Fleeing from the Berlin of the Nazis, the photographer Margaret Michaelis arrived in Barcelona in 1933.
Close to the dAS Group, she became the trusted photographer of the CNt-FAI during the outbreak of the
Civil War in 1936. Her work, deposited in the archive of the Foreign propaganda offices, was sent along
with the rest of the anarchists’ material to the “International Institute of Social History” in Amsterdam for
safekeeping before the end of the war. this legacy identified by the author of this article, helps us to understand her commitment to anarchism and social revolution during her stay in anti-fascist Barcelona.

Author Biography

Almudena Rubio Pérez, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Art historian from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2005) and researcher of the CNT-FAI Civil War Photographic Archive deposited at the IISH, where she has been working since 2015. Responsible for the identification and recovery of the archive of Kati Horna and the legacy of Margaret Michaelis. Associate researcher at the Museo Reina Sofía (Front and rearguard. Women and the Civil War, 2021). She is currently preparing an exhibition on the two women photographers.