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Drawing of a man from the Kovno ghetto

Object | Accession Number: 1995.89.18

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    Overview

    Date
    creation:  1943
    Geography
    creation: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Signature
    recto: lower right, "Josef Schlesinger/1943", in ink
    Contributor
    Artist: Josef Schlesinger
    Biography
    ."..active in the [Kovno] ghetto and closely associated with [Esther] Lurie was Josef Schlesinger. From the ghetto's first days he sought out the Paint and Sign Workshop, where he designed projects and most likely took part in several clandestine art exhibitions there. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1919, Schlesinger began his training at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1938. Within the year he and his mother left German-occupied Czechoslovakia for Kovno, where his father managed a textile factory. There he continued his studies at the Arts Institute until his ghetto imprisonment."
    [Klein, Dennis B., ed The Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1997, p. 169]

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Physical Description
    Four part assemblage of paper with portrait drawing of a man mounted on piece of black paper attached to piece of green paper with two labels; black ink.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 7.090 inches (18.009 cm) | Width: 4.330 inches (10.998 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, graphite, adhesive
    Inscription
    recto: lower right, inscription in Hebrew characters, in pencil; on separate piece of paper mounted on black backing paper, "A. Golub", in pen; on another separate piece of paper attached to lower edge of green/blue backing paper, inscription written in Hebrew characters, in pen

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The drawing was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-05-22 12:31:01
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