Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Watercolor created by Oscar Liedel, 1945
- Artwork Title
- La Chambre a Gaz
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Severin Wunderman Family
- Signature
- and dated at lower right O. Liedel
- Contributor
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Artist:
Oscar Liedel
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Watercolor painting (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Depicted is a figure representing death, draped in red with Nazi swastika emblem at door to the gas chamber, unclothed Jews being sent to death. Framed in a 1" walnut mould enclosing silk mat and glazing.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 19.760 inches (50.19 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, gouache
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The watercolor painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by the Severin Wunderman Family.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:43
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn5587
Also in Severin Wunderman family collection
The collection consists of three watercolors created by Oscar Liedel, and a book titled "La Guerre et L'Occupation Vues."
Book
Object
Limited edition of 26 copies Hors-Commerce lettered A-Z and 500 copies on Papier D'Arches numbered 1-500; this copy unnumbered.
