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Art and the Holocaust

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Klaus Meyer 1918-2002

Family Photograph (In Memorium 1942)
woodcut and linocut on paper
49 x 37.3
and dated (lower right): 'Klaus Meyer '82'
1989-10
@Klaus Meyer estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
This poignant print was created by the German-born Jewish artist Klaus Meyer in 1982, forty years after most of his family, including his mother, brother Ulrich and his wife Annemarie,...
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This poignant print was created by the German-born Jewish artist Klaus Meyer in 1982, forty years after most of his family, including his mother, brother Ulrich and his wife Annemarie, perished in Auschwitz. Upon fleeing to Britain, Meyer himself was interned at the Onchan Camp on the Isle of Man (1940-1942). The heads and shoulders of two women, a man and a young child are depicted in an oval reminiscent of an old-fashioned photograph. The family is visually confined behind two rows of barbed wire, stretched between two wooden posts. The wire creates a barrier between them and the viewer, evoking a sense of imprisonment and distance. Meyer’s work is an interesting example of two different printing techniques employed in one print: while the ‘photographic’ element is a linocut, the barbed wire and fence are a woodcut, the latter chillingly evoking the physical texture of a camp’s wooden fence.
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presented by the artist 1989

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 140.
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