France Audoul

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France Audoul (* 1894 in Lyon ; † 1977 ) was a French painter and resistance fighter of the Resistance . She was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp , where she created 32 sketches with scenes from everyday life in the camp and portraits. Among other things for these pictures, which were published (together with poems from her pen) in 1966 in the album 150,000 women in hell (French original: 150,000 femmes en enfer ), she achieved worldwide fame.

Life

France Audoul grew up in a family of artists in Lyon and took three years of lessons at the local art school. She worked in various art workshops in Paris before she was arrested as a resistance fighter near Toulouse in 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück. After the war she took up painting again despite her poor health and was involved in numerous exhibitions.

Web links

  • Helga Schwarz, Gerda Szepansky: … and yet flowers bloomed. Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, accessed on January 6, 2015 (PDF).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ France Audoul. (No longer available online.) The Ravensbrück project, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 (PDF).
  2. ↑ FNDIR-UNADIF: LES DESSINS COMME FORME DE RESISTANCE DANS LES CAMPS. fondationresistance, accessed January 6, 2015 (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Audoul, France
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, member of the Resistance and concentration camp prisoner
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH 1977