Three hundred of Charlotte Salomon’s beautiful expressionist paintings illustrating a young German Jewish women’s self-discovery can be seen at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum until July 31 ...
Charlotte Salomon spent most of 1941 locked in a room in La Belle Aurore, a hotel in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat in the south of France, painting. She was trying to distract herself from the suicidal ...
Had she lived, Charlotte Salomon would have turned 100 in 2017. Instead, the German-Jewish artist and her unborn child died at Auschwitz in October 1943. What she left behind, however, was a deeply ...
The German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who died at Auschwitz on her arrival in 1943, is most famous for her final work – a collection of 769 paintings entitled Life? or Theatre?, which she ...
About a third of the 769 gouaches that Salomon selected of the roughly 1,300 she painted over the course of two years are displayed in the exhibition. Like the full work, and in keeping with her ...
SALZBURG Austria (Reuters) - The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called "Life? or Theatre?" before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age ...
A FAMILY HISTORY of suicide. The rise and spread of Nazi Germany. Unrequited love. In 1940, an aspiring young artist named Charlotte Salomon found herself at a crossroads. In the south of France ...
The artist Charlotte Salomon was tragically murdered in the gas chamber in Auschwitz at the age of 26, while 5 months pregnant. She left behind two legacies: a beautiful collection of her paintings ...
In a better world, the animated feature “Charlotte,” about a young and prolific Jewish painter who was murdered in the Holocaust, wouldn’t seem so uncomfortably immediate and timely in the 21st ...
TIFF: Charlotte Salomon was murdered at Auschwitz. The radical work of art she completed in her short life makes you wish for a much better film. “Charlotte” is a gentle animated biopic of the ...
SALZBURG Austria (Reuters) - The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called "Life? or Theatre?" before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age ...
(Reuters) — The Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon left behind a body of watercolors and text she called “Life? or Theater?” before she was killed at Auschwitz in 1943 at age 26, carrying her ...