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Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?:
- Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel
- Expressionism
- Alexander Nagler
Jul 15, 2017 · In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. Salomon’s grandparents, like many Jews, had fled Germany in...
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Charlotte Salomon was an artist who created work depicting her family narrative before many of her family members died in the Holocaust. Her work was found after the war by relatives and donated to the Jewish Historical Museum there in Amsterdam.
The artist Charlotte Salomon created a daunting visual opus under the threat (and ultimate destruction) from Nazi Germany.
- German
- April 16, 1917
- Berlin, Germany
- October 10, 1943
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) grew up in middle-class German-Jewish Berlin. As a girl she led a relatively carefree life, until the Nazi coup in 1933. In spite of this she almost completed her studies at Art Academy.
Nov 15, 2019 · Salomon, born to an upper middle-class German family in 1917, anchors her work in the past. Annotated with text and even musical citations, the paintings chart the story of a thinly veiled...
Deported from France and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was murdered upon arrival; along with the child she carried in her womb. When these two lives were cut short, the question marks lost their significance, for in Auschwitz there was neither life nor theater.
