Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Painting commemorating the liberation of Dachau given to Moses Goldberg, a former inmate of the Treblinka and Dachau concentration camps. The artist was a gentile who may have been a survivor of Dachau.
- Date
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creation:
1946
- Geography
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depiction:
Dachau (Concentration camp);
Dachau (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Family of Moses Goldberg
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Mixed media painting (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- image of nude male figure standing with arms outstretched atop grassy mound, in front of edifice in shape of inverted triangle
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm) | Width: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)
- Materials
- overall : bristol board, gouache, pastels
- Inscription
- front, lower left corner, in (gouache?) : DACHAU / 29.4.1945 / 29.4.1946
front, lower right corner, in (gouache?) : 1946. / BREITSAMETER.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Zyppora Goldberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-20 09:05:52
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11327
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