Boris Kobe's Tarock Card Game or Tarot Cards (?) from Allach Concentration
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Boris Kobe (1905-81) was a Slovenian architect and painter who became a political prisoner in the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich, Germany.
The contextual framework and point of departure of the art project is a deck of tarok/tarot cards made in the Allach by Kobe most probably after the April 1945 liberation by American forces (see card XXI which depicts liberation and the Slovenian flag, Allach being burned).
As a whole, this work of art represents a visual summary of life in a concentration camp, the main vehicle of which consists of Kobe's tragic and humiliating sequences spiced with acrid humor. At the same time, this tiny exhibit is a miniature chronicle of the twilight of humanity brought about by Nazism, which regarded a human being, and therefore the artist himself, as a mere number.
The contextual framework and point of departure of the art project is a deck of tarok/tarot cards made in the Allach by Kobe most probably after the April 1945 liberation by American forces (see card XXI which depicts liberation and the Slovenian flag, Allach being burned).
As a whole, this work of art represents a visual summary of life in a concentration camp, the main vehicle of which consists of Kobe's tragic and humiliating sequences spiced with acrid humor. At the same time, this tiny exhibit is a miniature chronicle of the twilight of humanity brought about by Nazism, which regarded a human being, and therefore the artist himself, as a mere number.
JM's World War One Sketchbook
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130 water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918.
"Leben? Oder Theater?" ("Vida? Ou Teatro?")
São gravuras e textos de autoria da alemã Charlotte Salomon, feitas entre 1940 e 1942.
Em mais de mil guaches e textos em folhas transparentes ela caracterizou não só a sua vida privada como também a vida da burguesia judia alemã antes e durante a segunda guerra mundial.
É um testemunho de vida comovente.
A exposição completa aqui
Outro link de interesse: "Life? or Theater?"
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