Ehra or child with a ball
Ehra or child with ball or Sinti girl Ehra is a work of art by Otto Pankok .
The artwork
The small bronze figure shows a chubby girl with tangled hair, who carries a small ball on the right palm with her head raised and holds it with her left hand. The girl wears an ankle-length long-sleeved dress and several striking necklaces.
About history
Otto Pankok dealt extensively with the subject of Gypsies from the 1930s onwards and created numerous pictures of Sinti and Roma children . One of his models was the girl Ehra. Ehra was interned in the Düsseldorf camp on Höherweg in Lierenfeld during the Third Reich , where around 200 Düsseldorf Sinti and Roma were held. She was deported to a concentration camp in 1940 . Although Ehra was one of the few survivors of this imprisonment, a cast of the bronze figure created by Pankok in 1955 was erected as a memorial for the murdered Sinti and Roma at the Old Harbor near the Rhine promenade in Düsseldorf. A stone slab next to the figure bears the following inscription:
- In memory of the Sinti and Roma who fell victim to genocide as a result of National Socialism. This figure of the Sinto girl Ehra was created by the artist Otto Pankok (1893–1966) in memory of his friends from Düsseldorf Sinti, over a hundred of whom were transported from the Höherweg camp and murdered. The girl Ehra herself was one of the few concentration camp survivors.
The memorial was erected at the old port on the 52nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , January 27, 1997. Since then, the figure and its surroundings have served as a place for commemorative events in memory of those killed.
Another work of art by Pankok, which shows "Strubbelkopf Ehra" (its formulation), is the woodcut Ehra im Wind or Kind im Wind from 1947. This work of art is located as a sculpture in the town hall of Mülheim an der Ruhr . Ehra, who had been depicted repeatedly by Pankok, died decades after her imprisonment in a concentration camp.
literature
- Karola Fings , Frank Sparing: "Oh, friends, where did you go ...?" Otto Pankok and the Düsseldorf Sinti . Exhibition catalog. Ed. Evang. Johannes parish and reminder and memorial Düsseldorf . 1993, 2nd edition 2006
- Kurt Holl Hg .: The forgotten Europeans. Roma Art - Roma in Art. Verlag Rom e. V. , Cologne 2009, ISBN 9783980311885 . Exhibition by the Cologne City Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.fotos-von-duesseldorf.de/detail.php?picture_id=3440 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-stadt/stadt-infos/stadtteile/Lebenswertes-Arbeiterviertel_aid_22894.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.duesseldorf.de/presse/pld/d2007/d2007_12/d2007_12_13/07121310_169.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de/gedenkstaetten-nrw/duesseldorf/forschung-und-projekte/verlung-duesseldorfer-sinti-und-roma.html
- ↑ http://fkoester.de/denkmaeler/Ehra/index.php
- ↑ http://www.sintiundroma-nrw.de/mahnmal%20ehra.htm ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . For print see literature: “Oh, friends…”, p. 13. Original in the O. P. Museum Drevenack. Another woodcut by Ehra (from 1943) ibid. P. 25, image 5
- ↑ z. B. a charcoal drawing “Ehra” undated, in: Sinti und Roma. A people on their way to themselves. Series of materials on international cultural exchange, 17th ed. Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart, 1981, p. 429, full-page illustrations (pagination taken from the first printing in the Zs. Of the institute). For the first time in Otto Pankok, Zigeuner, 1947
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/dinslaken/In-den-Bildern-steckt-die-Wirklichkeit-id2086825.html
- ↑ without ISBN. The traveling exhibition can still be borrowed
- ↑ on p. 139 small-format images: Ehra or Kind im Wind , originally 270 × 151 mm from the Hünxe Museum; Name assigned to "honor"
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 28.7 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 15.3 ″ E