Die Stadt

Not on view
Date1941-11-24 - 1944-10-31
Mediumink and color wash on board
Dimensionsoverall: 11 9/16 in x 8 3/16 in
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineGift of Herman and Gerda Korngold
Object number2635.89
Object DescriptionInk and color wash drawing, aerial view of the ghetto. At top: Die Stadt [the city]. Brownish red wash on black line drawing. On reverse in pencil: #1.
Collections
  • Documenting Nazi Ghettos
Keywords
  • German
  • 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. Lent to Massachusetts College of Art for Seeing through Paradise exhibit, 1991.
Bodenbach Barracks
1943
Object number: 2615.89
Ghetto-Wache
1943
Object number: 2624.89
Bahnbau
1943
Object number: 2641.89

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