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Dora Holzhandler was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Paris in 1928. After the collapse of her father’s business, she spent her first six years with a Catholic family in Normandy. In 1934 she moved with her immediate family to London. Many members of her greater family, who remained behind, perished in the Holocaust. After the war, Holzhandler returned briefly to Paris before re-settling in London in 1948. She studied at the Anglo-French Art School (1948-50), where her now celebrated, naïve style of painting was first recognised and encouraged.
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@Dora HolzhandlerPhoto: Bridgeman imagesHolzhandler's imaginary portrait of her grandfather, who perished in Auschwitz, was made 17 years after the end of the Second World War as an act of reflection and commemoration. It is the only one of her paintings that makes direct reference to the Holocaust.Provenance
presented by the artist 2006Exhibitions
Outside In or Inside Out: Dora Holzhandler
