Overview
- Date
-
creation:
1943
- Geography
-
creation:
Kovno ghetto (historic);
Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Markings
- verso: stamp, encircled, "Otto v. Mauderode/Tilsit", in ink
- Signature
- recto: lower right, "Josef Schlesinger/1943", in ink
- Contributor
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Artist:
Josef Schlesinger
- Biography
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."..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
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Drawings
- Object Type
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Portrait drawing (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Black ink drawing; bust length; image of man with glasses, has Star of David patch on right side of coat.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, graphite
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The drawing was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-27 13:57:09
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9986
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