Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival : Theresienstadt, 1941-1945

by Dutlinger, Anne D.; Dutlinger, Anne D.; Hajkova, Michaela; Wonschick, Hannelore; Leshnoff, Susan; Rovit, Rebecca; Blodig, Vojtech; Milton, Sybil H.; Moravian College Payne Gallery

• ISBN13: 9781928746102
• ISBN10: 1928746101
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Barricade Books

Summary

The Bauhaus and its influences are to be found throughout twentieth-century art and design; the architecture of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe and the art of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky being among the most widely recognized instances. Perhaps the most poignant example of this influence, however, may be understood through the life of a little-known student of the Bauhaus who entered its first class in 1919 -- Friedl Dicker, whom Gropius described as "a distinguished, rare talent ... The multidimensional nature of her talent and her indomitable energy received the highest esteem ..".

Friedl Dicker was a prolific and multitalented artist, producing work in theater, architecture, textiles, graphic design, drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 1926, in Vienna, she founded Atelier singer-Dicker with a classmate Franz Singer. In 1934 she was arrested by the Gestapo for anti-Fascist activities and fled to Prague, where she taught art classes for Jewish refugees. In 1942 she was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where she secretly taught art to the children

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Anne D. Dutlinger
Preface	xv
Dr. Diane Radycki
Foreword	xvi
H.E. Alexandr Vondra
Introduction
Art and Artists in Theresienstadt: Questions of Survival	1	(9)
Anne D. Dutlinger
ESSAYS
Art in the Context of Theresienstadt	10	(50)
Sybil H. Milton
Coming of Age in Theresienstadt: Friedl's Girls from Room 28	60	(24)
Hannelore Wonschick
Anne D. Dutlinger
Ian Pepper
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Lady in a Car	84	(22)
Michaela Hajkova
Holocaust Survival and the Spirit of the Bauhaus	106	(16)
Susan Leshnoff
A Carousel of Theatrical Performances in Theresienstadt	122	(22)
Rebecca Rovit
The Genocide of the Czech Jews in World War II and the Terezin Ghetto	144	(18)
Vojtech Blodig
Chronology of Theresienstadt	162	(8)
Sybil H. Milton
The Children	170	(8)
Terezin Memorial: A Short History	178	(20)
Vojtech Blodig
Exhibition Checklist	186	(4)
Contributors	190	(2)
Symposium	192	(4)
AFTERWORD
Moravian College and the Legacy of Comenius Peter Rafaeli	196	(2)
Honorary Consul-General of the Czech Republic---Philadelphia
Index	198