Charlotte Salomon
German painter (1917–1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play), the largest known artwork made by a Jewish person who died in the Holocaust,[1] consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 Salomon, 5 months pregnant at that time, was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered by the Nazis soon after her arrival.[2][3][4][5] In 2015, a 35-page confession by Salomon to the fatal poisoning of her grandfather, kept secret for decades, was released by a Parisian publisher.[6]
Charlotte Salomon | |
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Born | (1917-04-16)16 April 1917 |
Died | 10 October 1943(1943-10-10) (aged 26) |
Resting place | 50.034752°N 19.175804°E / 50.034752; 19.175804 |
Notable work | Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel |
Movement | Expressionism |
Spouse | Alexander Nagler |
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