electronic Arts Magazine - What's On
This section contains a magazine of items that may be of interest to
Art Club members, artists, art lovers and people local to Wallingford. If you
know of any up and coming events or exhibitions that you think might interest
other artists, then please submit a brief report by email to
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contributors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the committee or members
of the Art Club.
Wallingford School of Art & Art History -
Programme of Courses & Events
3 February 2006 Ann Stieglitz: Lecture for Holocaust Day: Charlotte
Salomon: Theatre, or Life?
Life? Or Theatre? A Play With Music was created by German-Jewish artist,
Charlotte Salomon while living in exile in France during World War II. It is
composed of 769 gouache (opaque watercolor) paintings. Salomon’s work combines
painting with music and text. It interprets the difficulty of being a woman in
the pre-war period. Charlotte Salomon used painting as a strategy to save her
own life, as well as restoring life to her mother, grandmother, aunt and
mother’s cousin by portraying the significance of their lives as well as their
deaths.
Born in Berlin on April 16, 1917, Charlotte Salomon was the only daughter of
a prominent surgeon, Albert Salomon, and his wife, Franziska Grunwald. Charlotte
fled Berlin for the French Riviera in 1939, and she lived there for three years
as a refugee. She married and was four months pregnant with her first child when
in October 1943 she was deported. She died in Auschwitz on October 10, 1943; she
was probably gassed within one hour of stepping off the train.
During her years of exile, Salomon painted 1,325 notebook-sized gouaches;
from these, she selected 769 paintings, arranged then into acts and scenes, and
titled them Life? Or Theatre?: A Play With Music. Her work is a key to her
existence and a testament to the power of memory and survival. As she was about
to be deported, Charlotte bundled up Life? Or Theatre?: A Play With Music and
gave the package to her friend, Dr. Moridis, a local physician.
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