Works and artists Illustration January 27 Memorial Day Modern Art Satire Twentieth Century
A man bent over a drawing board as the whole world seems to be sliding into the abyss. In his hand a small nib dipped in ink: this is how Arthur Szyk (Łódź, 1894 - New Canaan, Cunnecticut, 1951) portrays himself on the title page of…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day Photography
Photographing all the prisoners arriving at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp: this was the task of Wilhelm Brasse, still remembered today as the "Auschwitz photographer." Three photos for each prisoner, and while he was…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day Twentieth Century
Art, together with literature and cinema, has told by bearing witness to one of the most terrible periods in history, one of the greatest tragedies ever of humanity: the horrors of the Holocaust, the persecution suffered by Jews under the…
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On the occasion of Remembrance Day, the Musei di Palazzo dei Pio in Carpi will open the exhibition The Noise of Memory on January 27, 2024. Art and Civic Engagement for 50 Years of the Museum to the Deported, curated by Ada Patrizia…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day Twentieth Century
We cannot and must not forget the horrors of the Holocaust because only memory ensures that mistakes and horrors are never and never again repeated. The racial persecution of Jews in World War II was one of the greatest tragedies in…
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Works and artists Contemporary art January 27 Memorial Day
OnHolocaust Remembrance Day , it has been our desire, for some years now, to tell stories of Jewish artists who experienced racial hatred and the tragic experience of theHolocaust on their own skin, deportation to concentration camps and…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day Lee Miller Photography Twentieth Century
Free, determined and with a strong personality, Elizabeth (Lee) Miller (Poughkeepsie, New York, 1907 - Chiddingly, 1977) is one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, recently rediscovered by the general public through…
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Works and artists January 27 Memorial Day Tuscany Twentieth Century
Voltolino Fontani was an eclectic expressionist painter who worked in Livorno in the twentieth century. He was born in 1920, and from 1936 to 1976, the year of his untimely death, he produced a large number of works with very diverse…
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