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Holocaust Art Endures at Israel's Yad Vashem Museum

(Los Angeles Times) Edmund Sanders - Yad Vashem's art museum offers an unexpected glimpse into how a group of persecuted artists managed to secretly produce a body of work that was often quiet, understated and beautiful. Yehudit Shendar, senior art curator of Yad Vashem's 10,000-piece collection, adds about 300 pieces a year, mostly donated from survivors' families or uncovered during accidental finds in attics. One Nazi commander in Ukraine ordered Jewish artist Bruno Schulz to paint his children's playroom with images from fairy tales. In an act of secret subversion, Schulz painted his own family members' faces as some of Snow White's dwarfs and himself as one of Cinderella's horsemen.
2010-12-31 08:41:59
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