Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (also Brandys , German: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis ; July 30, 1898 , Vienna - October 9, 1944 , Auschwitz ) - Austrian artist of Jewish origin.
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| Place of Birth | Vienna , Austria |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Literature
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in Vienna on July 30, 1898. Dicker-Brandeis was a student of Johannes Itten (1888-1967) at his private school in Vienna, and then followed him to study and teach at the Weimar Bauhaus . In 1919-1923 she was engaged in the design of fabrics, illustrator and design work. After graduation, the Bauhaus worked as a theater artist and designer in Berlin , Prague and Gronova . She married Pavel Brandeis in 1936 and after that used a double surname.
Together with her husband, she was deported to the Terezinsky ghetto in December 1942. In the ghetto, she gave drawing lessons. On the eve of the last deportation from the Terezinsky ghetto to Auschwitz , on October 6, 1944 , she packed all the drawings made by the children in her lessons into a suitcase (about 5000). Of the nearly 660 drawings, 550 were killed during the Holocaust . Drawings preserved. After the war, they became a vivid testimony of the daily life of Jews in the ghetto. They are currently stored in Prague at the Jewish Museum. An exhibition of works by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and her Terezin students was opened in Vienna in 1999. The exhibition was held in the Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, France, USA and Japan, it was visited by more than a million people.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis died in Birkenau on October 9, 1944. Her husband Pavel survived.
Literature
- Elena Makarova. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Ein Leben für Kunst und Lehre Verlag Christian Brandstaetter, Wien-Muenchen, 1999, ISBN 3-85498-032-9
- Elena Makarova: Friedl, Dicker-Brandeis, Vienna 1898 - Auschwitz 1944 (Paperback), Tallfellow Press; 1st edition (December 31, 1999), ISBN 0967606195 (10), ISBN 978-0967606194 (13)
- Susan Goldman Rubin: Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin , Holiday House Inc. New York, 2000, ISBN 9780823416813 (13), ISBN 082341681X (10)
- Elena Makarova , Sergey Makarov. Fortress over the abyss. T. 4: Art, music and theater in Terezin . Bridges of Culture (Gesharim), M., 2007, ISBN 5-93273-219-9
Notes
- ↑ https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/252932
- ↑ Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Friedl Dicker-Brandeis - 2008.
- ↑ FemBio
Links
- E. Makarova, S. Makarov. All genres except tragedy
- More about Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
- Jewish Woman Magazine
- The pinkas synagogue
- Exhibition Tokyo Fuji Art Museum April 2002
- Special Exhibition Innovator, Activist, Healer: The Art of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis , September 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005
- Jewish Museum (1109 Fifth Avenue, New York City) from September 10, 2004 to January 16, 2005
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