This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their innovative forms of artistic production. In contrast with the autonomous, modernist art object, their works were explicitly linked with the historical conditions under which they were produced – the pressures of persecution and exile. Conditions in the slave labour camps and ghettos in the Ukraine, which shaped the paintings and drawings of...
This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, fo...
What secrets were kept in the diaries of those who opposed the Nazi regime? Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag used her diaries to challenge Nazi activities both as a woman and a democrat. Tracing the rise of Hitler, military conquests and Jewish deportations, Haag's diary offers a fascinating look into the life and mind of one writer of the time.
What secrets were kept in the diaries of those who opposed the Nazi regime? Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag used her diaries to challenge Nazi activi...