January 27 Memorial Day - Finestre sull'Arte

David Olère, the deported artist who painted the horror of Auschwitz

Art, together with literature and cinema, has told by bearing witness to one of the most terrible periods in history, one of the greatest tragedies ever of humanity: the horrors of the Holocaust, the persecution suffered by Jews under the racial laws...
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Art as memory and moral commitment. An exhibition in Carpi for the 50th anniversary of the Museum to the Deported.

On the occasion of Remembrance Day, the Musei di Palazzo dei Pio in Carpi will open the exhibition The Noise of Memory on January 27, 2024. Art and Civic Engagement for 50 Years of the Museum to the Deported, curated by Ada Patrizia Fiorillo and Lore...
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Bedřich Fritta, the Jewish illustrator who drew life in the model ghetto of Terezín

We cannot and must not forget the horrors of the Holocaust because only memory ensures that mistakes and horrors are never and never again repeated. The racial persecution of Jews in World War II was one of the greatest tragedies in History: unpreced...
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Samuel Bak, the artist of childhood lost in the Holocaust. And the museum dedicated to him

OnHolocaust Remembrance Day , it has been our desire, for some years now, to tell stories of Jewish artists who experienced racial hatred and the tragic experience of theHolocaust on their own skin, deportation to concentration camps and the ...
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Lee Miller. Story of the photographer who bathed in Hitler's bathtub.

Free, determined and with a strong personality, Elizabeth (Lee) Miller (Poughkeepsie, New York, 1907 - Chiddingly, 1977) is one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, recently rediscovered by the general public through exhi...
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The tragedy of the Holocaust in three works by Voltolino Fontani

Voltolino Fontani was an eclectic expressionist painter who worked in Livorno in the twentieth century. He was born in 1920, and from 1936 to 1976, the year of his untimely death, he produced a large number of works with very diverse techniques, ...
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The story of Otto Freundlich, the "degenerate" artist who dreamed of one race and died in the Majdanek concentration camp

The Jewish origins of the German artist Otto Freundlich (Słupsk, 1878 - Majdanek, 1943) constituted in itself a cause for condemnation and persecution by the Nazi regime, but his ideas totally opposed to the regime gave further cause....
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Marc Chagall, the "White Crucifixion": a cry, still relevant today, against Nazi madness (and all extremism)

"They never understood who this Jesus really was. One of our most loving rabbis who always came to the aid of the needy and persecuted. They attributed too many ruler's insignia to him. He was considered a preacher with strong rules. To me he ...
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