Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943)
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Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943)
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Charlotte Salomon (April 16, 1917 - October 10, 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theatre?: A Song-play) consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death soon after her arrival.
Charlotte Salomon and her father Albert, 1927
Death and the Maiden from Life? or Theatre? [1940-42] by Charlotte Salomon

“Und sie sah sich vor die Frage gestellt, sich das Leben zu nehmen oder etwas ganz Verrückt-Besonderes zu unternehmen.”
Charlotte Salomon - Leben? Oder Theater? (1942)
Charlotte Salomon,The Mother Franziska Salomon tells Charlotte about Heaven, c. 1941
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Growing Up Absurd:
Before there was Art Spiegelman or Marjane Satrapi, there was Charlotte Salomon, the Berlin-born artist who created the genre-bending “Life? or Theatre?” The work, created in France between 1940-1942, blends not only life and theater but graphic novel and operetta; comedy and tragedy; and text, image and song in a stunning, innovative, autobiographical masterpiece that is necessarily colored by her fate. Don’t miss it at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Copyright Charlotte Salomon Foundation