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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite producing one of the most outstanding bodies of work of the twentieth century—a Gesamtkunstwerk (or ‘total artwork’) that owes as much to music, cinema and theater as it does to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Charlotte fails to truly depict the famed artist's work and pain. It may just be that no other artist can tell Salomon's story better than she already did. Disappointingly, the film adheres to a ...

You don't see Charlotte Salomon taken away, herded into a boxcar, sent into the Auschwitz gas chambers. But the play "Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theatre?" unmistakably speaks of life interrupted.

"You have no idea how hard a life in art is." Good Deed Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for an indie animated film called Charlotte, a Canadian-French-Belgian co-production that was ...