Although only a small picture, but paintings A spring (One spring) of two artists Karl and Kurt Conrad Bodek organizers Löw was chosen as the focus of the exhibition during the exhibit. The two artists had been detained at the Gurs camp in southern France. Painting a picture of a butterfly perched on barbed wire, so far as the image of the mountain in the Spanish border.
Paintings impress the organizers of the exhibition because it demonstrates the determination in citizenship - artist, expressed the will to survive and hope for the future of their very clear.
Later, the artist Kurt Löw escape to Switzerland but painters Bodek taken to Auschwitz and then killed. Only one of them has a chance to become the butterfly in the picture, to find freedom in the spring and a new sky.
The more meaningful than when this exhibition takes place at a time when Germany and Israel 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations.
According to the BBC, this historic exhibition called Art from genocide, has just opened recently at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition includes 100 works, from the collection of the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, most of the paintings of Jewish prisoners lived in labor camps, the parks and special concentration camps Nazis.
Many paintings which portray the dark reality of everyday life under the regime of a fascist prison.
In fact, the existence of these works to this day, in many cases, is a miracle. A lot of work has been a friend of the painter hiding or secretly bring in extremely dangerous conditions.
Attending the opening ceremony, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she hopes this exhibition will send a message to newcomers to Germany from countries "which are popular conception of Israel and hatred of Jews" .
However, regardless of the current political context, the co-curator and director of art and culture fund, Walter Smerling, said that the paintings themselves have built into them a special aesthetic power .
The organizers choose from hundreds of works to be 100 paintings exhibited on this occasion. Smerling He said: "We choose the works according to the contemplation of the artist, choosing the pictures impress especially, made us wonder what the story behind that picture?".
Felix Nussbaum is a famous painter was captured Nazis in Belgium in 1940. He later escaped and took refuge in Brussels with his wife. The painting of Refugees (Refugee The) his shows loneliness of a wandering Jew. In the painting he asked himself, "I can go anywhere in the world, I can live where I can work and survive where?".
Painter Nussbaum send this picture to his father in Amsterdam, but after his father was killed in Auschwitz in 1944, the painting fell into the hands of private collectors and then sold at an auction. In 1944, the painter Nussbaum and his wife were murdered at the age of 39 Auschuwitz. Mr. Smerling - director of the museum said that the painting makes people relate to reality, when a refugee is also wondering where he can go.
A different picture is impressive about the tragic, though in fact it has the name and the image of expression was very peaceful: The roof in winter (Rooftops in the winter) of artist Moritz Müller. Moritz Müller studied art in Prague, then established an auction house.
However, after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the auction house had been forced to close.
He composed more than 500 works during his time in special areas for Jews Theresienstadt. In the painting The roof in the winter, he regimens up images of snow-covered roofs in Theresienstadt seems like a peaceful scene.
But according to Mr. Smerling: "This is one of the most remarkable paintings, as it does not draw people - while the special zones for Jews always overloaded. Ambiguous picture, on the one hand it is very beautiful winter landscape, on the other hand, had a terrible hidden behind it ".
A widow of an Austrian officer then bought some of Müller's work, hiding them in her home. Painter Müller was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.
Self-portrait paintings of artist Charlotte Salomon. Painter Salomon has three works on display at the exhibition, including the self-portrait sketch.
She was born in Germany, then to live in the town of Villefranche, southern France. During this exile, she continued to paint. This self-portrait drawing painting during that period.
Smerling expert explained: "In a self-portrait, it seems everything is in motion, color on the face, there seems to be something unstable in the artist himself."
Painter Salomon were secret police Gestapo arrested with her husband in May 9-1943, then was taken to Auschwitz. She was murdered there when 5 months pregnant.
Entrance next picture (rear entrance) by Bedrich FRITTA: Of the more than 140,000 people were deported to Theresienstadt in special zones to 5-1945 11-1941 phase, about 120,000 people died. Bedrich FRITTA painter born in 1906 in Bohemia and was taken to Theresienstadt zone before being murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
He and the artist peers at a separate area for hiding Jews in their work and take the brick wall bricked up before his arrest.
Smerling expert explains: "The door to open half as a metaphor for death, there is no other choice, the only way out is to go into the darkness".
The song works are finished (The song is over) by artist Pavel Fantl is one of not many works painted directly on Hitler.
Mr. Smerling said: "When I saw it, I immediately thought it must be present in certain this exhibition. Fantl is a doctor born in 1903 in Prague. Thanks to a police Czechs provides drawing tools, he can draw at a separate confidentiality zones for Jews Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia at that time was occupied.
In the painting, the doctor Fantl draw Hitler as a clown. He used to play guitar melodies specialized deceive people lying on the floor, ruined, his hands covered with blood. "
Clearly not afraid and have a strong sense of humor antagonistic to any size, that new artists can criticize about who is responsible for their tragedy just before dying so.
Doctor Fantl deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland with his wife and son. 1-1945 month, he was murdered by German soldiers.
A worker Czechs then smuggled his work out of the ghetto and hid differentiate them in a wall.
Nelly Toll is the only living artists whose works exhibitors. She was born in Lviv, now in Ukraine's regions. Picture The girl in a field (Girls in the field) are painted in the age of eight women, while hiding with her mother in the family a Christian.
Paintings express the desire of freedom of the little girl at the time. From New Jersey (US), she went to Berlin Toll attend the exhibition opening and Chancellor Angela Merkel have been cordial reception, a meeting meant really nice icons.
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