Exhibition Details
Featuring more than twenty five publications reproducing art created in the concentration camps and soon after liberation, Artists of the Holocaust testifies to the atrocities, the artists’ indomitable will to document their experiences, and the power of publications to educate and inform.
Additional Details
The exhibition consists of postwar portfolios from the 1940s; personal illustrated narratives from the 1940s through the 1970s; exhibition catalogs; books featuring children’s art created in Theresienstadt; and Tana Kellner’s powerful artists’ book, 71125, Fifty Years of Silence: Eva Kellner’s Story (1992). The exhibition additionally presents work by Holocaust survivors Leo Haas (1901–1983), Esther Lurie (1913– 1998), and Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), among others.
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
New York, NY 10028
Image: Detail from Unsigned artist, Abstract Color Composition, 1943-44, Watercolor on paper / courtesy of The Met