Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Nurinst 2008
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 11-27
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
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Kristallnacht, 1938
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses selected works of German and Israeli art, as well as works by Jewish artists from other countries. German-born Felix Nussbaum and Charlotte Salomon dealt directly with Holocaust, the latter including in a gouash titled "Kristallnacht" and the former in an oil titled "The Refugee". Erwin Eisch created a series of ten images of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, as he experienced it as a child. Marc Chagall painted Jesus as a crucified Jew in 1938, while in America Max Weber, in "Whither Now?", asked where Jews could flee to. Mordecai Ardon and Anselm Kiefer employed Kabbalistic symbolism to explore the idea of evil. Several installation artists may be alluding to the November 1938 pogrom with combinations of glass and light. Shimon Attie projected photographs of pre-Nazi Jewish life on walls of what had been a Jewish section of Berlin to create an aura of loss.
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