Art in the Concentration Camp of Terezin
Art in the Concentration Camp of Terezin
Author(s): Markéta PetrášováSubject(s): Cultural history, Jewish studies, Visual Arts, Preservation, Local History / Microhistory, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Art
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Concentration Camp of Terezin; works of art; drawings; The Memorial Terezin;
Summary/Abstract: The article mentions some works of art made in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto and surveys various spheres of the prisoners’ artistic activities. Terezin drawings by about forty authors, either kept in the State Jewish Museum or the Terezin Memorial, are studied from the point of view of the techniques used, motifs chosen and depicted, etc.
Journal: Judaica Bohemiae
- Issue Year: XXI/1985
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 50-61
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
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