Chana Gitla Kowalska

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Chana Gitla Kowalska (born 1907 in Włocławek , Russian Empire ; died in 1942 or 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a Polish-French painter.

Life

Chana Gitla Kowalska was the daughter of the rabbi Yehuda Lejb Kowalski , in whose house the writer Shalom Asch wrote his first works. In 1922 she went to Berlin to study art, where she met her future husband, the writer Boruch Winogoura. She then moved to the bohemian Montparnasse district in Paris and joined a Jewish , communist artist group. She did not have her own studio in Paris.

In addition to painting, she wrote for Yiddish newspapers, was active in the Jewish Culture League and worked as a secretary for the Association des peintres et sculpteurs juifs ( German  association of Jewish painters and sculptors ). In 1937 she took part in the Congrès International de Défense de la Culture Juive contre le nazisme ( German  International Congress for the Defense of Jewish Culture against National Socialism ) in Paris . After the armistice in 1940 , she and her husband joined the Resistance and were temporarily imprisoned in La Santé prison. Both were on September 18, 1942, the convoy 34 from Drancy to the Auschwitz concentration camp deported .

literature

  • Limore Yagil : Au nom de l'art, 1933-1945: exils, solidarités et engagements. Fayard, Paris 2015. online
  • Polish Biographical Index. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, p. 795.
  • Chana Kowalska 1904–1941 , in: Hersh window: Undzere farpainict kinstler. Self-published, Paris 1951, pp. 215f (text in Yiddish, a photo, a street view, a self-portrait).
  • Hersh window: Chana Kovalski. Translation from Yiddish. In: Katriel Fishel Thursh, Meir Korzen: Wloclawek and Vicinity; Memorial Book. Tel Aviv 1967, p. 479ff. ( link )
  • Marie Boye, Paul Fogel, Nadine Nieszawer: Peintres juifs à Paris. École de Paris (1905-1939) . Paris: Denoël, 2000

Web links

  • Chana Gitla Kowalska , Jewish Artists of the School of Paris 1905–1939, Somogy, 2015, at Nieszawer & Princ, ecoledeparis.org ( Peintres juifs de l'école de Paris 1905-1939 )

References and comments

  1. ↑ The year of birth is 1904 for Hersh Fenster
  2. ↑ In the sources, the year of death is also 1941. If Kowalska was deported, then that is wrong, because the deportations from France did not begin until 1942.
  3. ↑ Chana Gitla Kowalska , at Memoriart
personal data
SURNAME Kowalska, Chana Gitla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Włocławek , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1942 or 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp