Alice Hohermann

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Girl with a Doll (1934)

Alice Hohermann , also Alicja Hoherman (born 1902 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ), was a Polish painter of Jewish descent ; she worked in France . Her painting was mainly devoted to portraits of women and children and is classified as Art Deco .

Life

Alicja Hohermann was the daughter of a wealthy businessman. At nineteen she married, which were divorced shortly thereafter. She began studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw , traveled to Paris in 1921 and continued her studies at the École de Paris . From 1925 she took part in the exhibitions of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Warsaw. From 1926 to 1939 she exhibited her pictures in Paris at the Salon des indépendants , Salon des Tuileries , Musée du Montparnasse and Salon d'Automne . Her pictures have also been exhibited in London and New York .

Threatened as a Jew, she wanted to emigrate to Brazil after 1939 ; the entry visa was refused. A friend got her a visa for Mexico . In 1943 she tried to travel to Spain with forged documents, was arrested in Marseille by the Vichy regime police, imprisoned in Toulouse and interned in the Drancy assembly camp. On July 18, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Transport 57 and murdered.

Alice Hohermann mainly painted in tempera and gouache , mostly in light tones, with large, clearly defined surfaces that are reminiscent of the poster art of the 1930s. She also created some pictures based on biblical subjects. Her painting is attributed to the École de Paris .

  • Lady with a Fan (1934)

  • Girl with a Rabbit (1936)

  • Girl with a Doll (1933)

  • Cabaret Dancer (1935)

  • St. Francis from Assisi (1934)

literature

  • Nadine Nieszawer: Peintres juifs à Paris 1905-1939, École de Paris , préface de Claude Lanzmann , Denoël, 2000, ISBN 978-2-207-25142-3
  • Anna Wierzbicka, Artyści polscy w Paryżu: antologia tekstów o polskiej kolonii artystycznej czynnej w Paryżu w latach 1900–1939 . Neriton 2008, ISBN 978-83-7543-024-0 , p. 169

Web links

Commons : Alice Hohermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paula Birnbaum, Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities , Ashgate Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7546-6978-4 , page 9 (in English, accessed January 1, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b Jerzy Malinowski, Barbara Brus-Malinowska, W kręgu École de Paris: malarze żydowscy z Polski , Z prac Zakładu Historii Sztuki Nowoczesnej Wydziału Sztuk Pięknych Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu wŻ i rze polski , from: Volume 2: Malarstów iów XX wieku, Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIX i XX wieku , p. 172 (in Polish, accessed January 1, 2014)
  3. ^ A b Adrian M. Darmon, Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers , Entry: Hohermann, Alice , ISBN 978-2-84855-011-4 , Carnot, 2003, p. 66 (in English, accessed on January 1, 2014)
  4. ↑ Dossies – Judaica; Alice Hohermann. ArtCult , pp. 16-17 , accessed on March 23, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Milena Cossetto: Gli artisti nella Shoah. (PDF) (No longer available online.) EmScuola.org , 2009, p. 98 , archived from the original on April 6, 2012 ; Retrieved January 1, 2014 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME High man, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohermann, Alicja (Polish name version)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish painter of Jewish descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp