BRAGAS DE PANA

Paula Rego

The Policeman’s Daughter

1987

Vie ? ou théâtre ? Charlotte Salomon. 1940-1942 Collection Musée juif, Amsterdam © Fondation Charlotte Salomon

Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917-10 October 1943, German-Jewish) ~ Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel / (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) (1940-42)

M004597  : ‘Even if it drives me out of my mind - I have to get it the way I want it. The print still isn’t right. The print still isn’t…’

Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917-10 October 1943, German-Jewish) ~ Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel / (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play) (1940-42)

M004253  : [Yes, love has brightly colored wings]

“Life? Or Theatre? is the name that Charlotte Salomon gave to a sequence of nearly 800 gouaches she produced between 1940 and 1942…The gouaches read like a series of story boards for a film, following the events of Salomon's life. The works have been likened to a diary, but her account is fictionalized, with the main characters in Solomon's life acting as the dramatis personnae…As Nazi aggression escalated, the Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon sensed the end was near. She wrapped over 800 of her paintings in brown paper and handed them to a friend with the words: “Take good care of it, it's my whole life.” Charlotte died in Auschwitz at 26.”

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