Images(3)

Central Bakery

Not on view

Date1942-08-19

Mediumwatercolor on paper paper board

Dimensionsoverall: 8 1/4 in x 11 9/16 in

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineGift of Herman and Gerda Korngold

Object number2616.89

Object DescriptionWatercolor, building, trees, open courtyard or street. Signed and dated bottom right corner 19.VIII.42 PL. On reverse in pencil: #37. Artists went to the central bakery with drawings to trade them for bread. [notebook]

Keywords

Food
Ghettos
Terezin

NotesPeter Loewenstein, brother of Gerda Korngold, was born in 1919 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia; grew up in Litomerice (Leitmeritz). He attended Charles University in Prague for engineering. Loewenstein was deported to Terezin (transport # AK 1, 361) fall 1941, where he worked in the technical department, executing drawings in pen and ink and watercolor. He was deported to Auschwitz 1944 where he perished. See MJH newsletter March 1990.

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