Holocaust Museum Houston will present one of the most important and powerful achievements of the 20th century - the singular and complex artwork "Life? Or Theatre?" by German-Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon - which through imagery and text tell the slightly fictionalized and theatrically imagined story of Salomon’s family.
The "Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?" exhibition features over 200 small gouaches on paper which Salomon created as part of a larger body of work in the early 1940s when in hiding from Nazi oppressors. These remarkable gouaches unveil a vivid self-portrait spanning across all facets of Salomon’s existence: from a complicated family life, growing up in Berlin, the rise of the Nazis, to her exile to France.
The exhibit will be on display until December 4.
Holocaust Museum Houston will present one of the most important and powerful achievements of the 20th century - the singular and complex artwork "Life? Or Theatre?" by German-Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon - which through imagery and text tell the slightly fictionalized and theatrically imagined story of Salomon’s family.
The "Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?" exhibition features over 200 small gouaches on paper which Salomon created as part of a larger body of work in the early 1940s when in hiding from Nazi oppressors. These remarkable gouaches unveil a vivid self-portrait spanning across all facets of Salomon’s existence: from a complicated family life, growing up in Berlin, the rise of the Nazis, to her exile to France.
The exhibit will be on display until December 4.
Holocaust Museum Houston will present one of the most important and powerful achievements of the 20th century - the singular and complex artwork "Life? Or Theatre?" by German-Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon - which through imagery and text tell the slightly fictionalized and theatrically imagined story of Salomon’s family.
The "Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?" exhibition features over 200 small gouaches on paper which Salomon created as part of a larger body of work in the early 1940s when in hiding from Nazi oppressors. These remarkable gouaches unveil a vivid self-portrait spanning across all facets of Salomon’s existence: from a complicated family life, growing up in Berlin, the rise of the Nazis, to her exile to France.
The exhibit will be on display until December 4.