Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836570777 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 600 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Judith C. From 1969 until 1998 she was involved in the collecting for and building of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, working as Director from 1976. Belinfante studied modern history at the University of Amsterdam. From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of Parliament and from 2003 to 2008 Chief Curator of the Special Collections of the University Library of the University of Amsterdam. In her long career as an exhibi
A cycle of 1,325 autobiographical gouaches, it combines personal and political narrative into one shattering document of National Socialism as much as a pioneering personal narrative. She was 26 years old. Painting For Her LifeCharlotte Salomon’s artistic feat under the Third Reich When German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) handed her gouaches series Life? or Theater?over to a friend, she beseeched him to “Keep it safe. But there is an unmissable defiance, too. Without category or comparison, the gouaches are a triumph of personal truth and individual expression. Divided into three sections, the gouaches detail Salomon’s family; growing up in Berlin; studying art under the Third Reich; her love affair with singing teacher Alfred Wolfsohn; the rise of the Nazis; the persecution of Jews; and her exile to France in 1939. Trauma haunts each page, whether in the Swastika flags flapping in the wind or the agonizing history of suicide in Salomon’s family. Throughout, the artist dep
Charlotte Salomon, Life? or Theatre? Perf A very unique book about a life in a time when lives were being cut short.I would recommend it to anyone with an ounce of art appreciation or a love of whimsy; it's a graphic novel before anyone thought of that term.. "A strange and moving masterpiece" according to Shalom Freedman. I saw the pictures reproduced in this book in a special exhibition at the 'Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum' in Jerusalem. I was in the company of a professional artist who was astounded by the insightfulness, intelligence and even humor of Salomon's work. She tells a harrowing and tragic family story in this work.Thi. Nicole Maynard-Sahar said Five Stars. Salomon is one of my top ten favorite painters of all time. Her work is profound.
. E. About the Author Judith C. She is member and Chair of the Charlotte Salomon Foundation.Evelyn Benesch is deputy director of the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. In her long career as an exhibition curator, she has focused on the many artists of classic modernism – from Paul Cézanne to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, from the Futurists to the painters of Die Brücke, and from Pierre Bonnard to Balthus. Belinfante studied modern history at the University of Amsterdam. From 1969 until 1998 she was involved in the collecting for and building of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, working as Director from 1976. From 1998 to 2002 she was a member of Parliament and from 2003 to 2008 Chief Curator of the Special Collections of the University Library of the University of Amsterdam