Alice Brill

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Alice Brill (1965)

Alice Brill (born December 13, 1920 in Cologne ; † June 29, 2013 in Itu , São Paulo ) was a German-speaking-Jewish, Brazilian photographer, painter and author.

Life

Alice Brill was born on December 13, 1920 in Cologne to Marte and Erich Brill . Her parents divorced shortly after the birth and she grew up with her mother in Hamburg; but she was always in contact with her father.

At the age of 13, Brill began life in exile because she and her family were persecuted as Jews by the National Socialists . Together with her mother, she first went to Mallorca and later to Italy.

From March 1934, Brill lived with her father in Amsterdam for a few months because her mother had already gone to Brazil. Brill was to come as soon as her mother found a job. In August 1934 she and her father went to the Brazilian capital, Rio de Janeiro . Father and daughter spent a few months together on the island of Paquetá before they went to see their mother in São Paulo.

Brill only went to school in São Paulo for a short time and began working in a book and art shop in 1936. She also did this to help her mother financially. Through the shop, Brill came into contact with the city's art scene and studied with Yolanda Mohalyi . She began to paint and take photos herself. After the end of the Second World War , Alice got the opportunity to study in the USA through a scholarship. Back in Brazil she worked as a photographer and painted on the side. At that time she was one of the few women in this profession. In her first major commission as a photographer, Alice portrayed the everyday life of the people of São Paulo in 1950. The photos were later exhibited in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo . Alice successfully exhibited her paintings and photographs, and published her collected photos in books. She married the Jewish-Polish emigrant Paul Czapski in the 1950s.

Despite professional success, Alice began studying philosophy in the 1970s. In 1982 she completed her master's degree in aesthetics at the University of São Paulo and in 1994 she completed her dissertation at the School of Art (Escola de Communicações e Artes). Alice Brill-Czapski died at the age of 92 on June 29, 2013 in Brazil.

Fonts

  • Da arte e da linguagem . São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1988
  • Memories from 1933-1945 . manuscript, São Paulo, 1991. private collection

literature

  • Maike Bruhns : Erich Brill. In: Dies .: Art in crisis. Artist Lexicon, Vol. II, pp. 87–90. Hamburg 2001. Maike Bruhns. Fled from Germany. Hamburg artist in exile 1933–1945. Pp. 30f., 170-173. Bremen 2007.
  • Marlen Eckl: "The melting pot" - the representation of Sao Paulo in painting, literature and photography by the Brill family. In: Martius-Staden-Jahrbuch, No. 58, São Paulo 2011, pp. 8–35.
  • Katherine Morris: German-Jewish Women in Brazil: Autobiography as Cultural History. In: Sibylle Quack (Ed.): Between Sorrow and Strength. Women Refugees of the Nazi Period. Cambridge, 1995. pp. 147-158.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Vol II, 1. Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 156.
  • Rosanna Vitale: Mother and father united in me !: the painter Alice Brill: the life and development of Alice Brill - an example for the next generation. In: Inge Hansen-Schaberg (Hrsg.): Persecuted as a child: Anne Frank and the others . Weidler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89693-244-6 , pp. 269-278.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Marlen Eckl: "The melting pot" - the representation of Sao Paulo in painting, literature and photography of the Brill family . Ed .: Martius-Staden-Jahrbuch. No. 58 . São Paulo 2011, p. 8-35 .
  2. ↑ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss: Alice Brill . In: Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . tape 2 . Saur, Munich 1983.
  3. ^ A b Katherine Morris: German-Jewish Women in Brazil: Autobiography as Cultural History . In: Sibylle Quack (Ed.): Between Sorrow and Strength. Women Refugees of the Nazi Period . Cambridge 1995, p. 147-158 .
  4. ^ Instituto Itaú Cultural: Alice Brill. Retrieved January 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Brill, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brill-Czapski, Alice (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian photographer, painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2013
Place of death Itu