Z depozitářů Památníku Terezín…

Our invitation was accepted by Tomáš Raichl, the depository manager of the Terezín Memorial. In his lecture, he will cover visual art created in the ghetto, including work created for the official SS Commandatura Terezín. It will present expressively conceived works depicting real life and suffering in this place, documentary and commemorative artworks by professional artists and amateurs, portraits as well as works of art and decorative objects designed and created in the workshops there. It will introduce the most important painters of the ghetto, highlighting the work and life experiences of the Brno painter Otto Ungar and František Kien's ties to South Moravia, specifically to Bzenec. He will not forget the so-called the affair of the Terezin painters, i.e. the exposure of artists depicting real life in the ghetto by the SS command and their arrest for "propaganda of horror" and other fates. The lecture will be given in an exhibition of drawings by Gisela Rottonara, that is, the woman who was taken to Terezín in 1942 and succumbed to the effects of typhus after seven months there. Admission is voluntary.