Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2020) 83-117
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
;
Jewish artists
;
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
Abstract:
In the years 1940-1944, several dozen artists were active in the Łódź ghetto. Those were renowned artists-graduates of schools and academies and talented amateurs, who did not gain recognition as artists before 1939. Some came from the tódź area, some came from abroad -on transports from Prague, Berlin, Hamburg. Cologne or Vienna. In a closed housing district, artistic activity, subjected to administrative supervision was harnessed for propaganda pur poses. In offices, institutions, departments and workshops, they made posters, commemora tive albums, stamps, badges, emblems, and posters. On special commission, they painted portraits of jewish dignitaries and German ghetto administration officials. Although the rationing of tools and materials: paints, cardboard, metals, ink was strictly connected with orders, the artists tried to create works that depicted the surrounding reality outside the official circula of the most renowned artists. This analysis makes use of different sources, from surviving ar tion and without censorship. The issue of artistic a the basis of examples of chive documents to personal recollections, letters, testimonies, and existing works. Research f the functioning y in the Lódź ghetto was discussed on results that, on the one hand, took into consideration individual information, and on the other - individual feelings of the victims and witnesses, are a starting point for further reconstruc tion of artistic activity in the tódź ghetto
Note:
With an English abstract.
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