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| Title | : | To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060171057 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
Charlotte Solomon is a deeply inspiring once in a lifetime experience! I have the big full size version which I consider a very great book. A truly inspiring experience to read and meditate on.Many awakening experiences reached through this book.. Biography of Charlotte Salomon This book is fascinating. It was thoroughly researched, and gives a compelling account of the effects of the rise of the Nazi movement and the slow and excruciating restrictions on the Jews living in Berlin, particularly this one family of the Salomons. Although I studied art history, I had never heard of Charlotte Salomon until a friend told me of an exhibit she'd seen o. rndkr said Valuable documentation of a unique & powerful artist. In the early 1980's, while browsing the discount table at my favorite bookstore of the time (Orr Books in Uptown Minneapolis, RIP), I stumbled on this huge art book from Viking Press simply titled Charlotte, which featured the entirety of German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon's magnum opus, Life? Or Theater? This autobiographical work consists of 769 unforgettably expres
Falling in love & suffering loss. Salomon's work survives intact in Amsterdam, but until now no one has unfolded the real life behind the painted one. Choosing whether to take her own life--or to put it into art. Leaving her home for exile on the Riviera. With Salomon & Brunner representing creation and destruction in sharp contrast, Felstiner brings together previously unknown facts of their 2 lives & opens provocative ne perspectives on gender and genocide.. TO PAINT HER LIFE also traces a shadow story behind Charlotte Salomon's--that of Alois Brunner, Eichmann's right-hand man, the notorious SS officer responsible for deporting to death camps more than 100,000 Jews. TO PAINT HER LIFE resounds with the artist's own words & images. We see her losing her mother to suicide. Making choices that speak to us all--to love someone, to leave a home, to face memories, to recount it all. Charlotte Salomon, born in Germany in 1917, exiled to France in 1939, spent the next 2 intense, suspenseful years creating a lifetime's work--more than 700 watercolors overlaid by written texts and tunes that captured the dramatic events of her own life. Being admitted to the prestigious Berlin Art Academy and then expelled. Mary Felstiner spent 10 years of searching for & interviewing Salomon's relatives
. Felstiner bases the biography on this work, as well as on interviews with people who knew Salomon and research in various archives. The story also explicates the plight of Jewish women during the Holocaust. Shy and withdrawn, she sought escape from reality in her art and created an autobiography, Leben oder Theater?, for which she produced over 700 paintings and drawings. From Library Journal Felstiner (history, San Francisco State Univ.) has written a poignant, tragic biography of Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish artist who grew up in Berlin between the wars. (Illustrations not seen.)-Sharon Firestone, Ross-Blakley Law Lib., Arizona State Univ., TempeCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. In 1938, Salomon was sent to the south of France to join her grandparents as refugees. Although Salomon's personality is not clearl
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