Franz Reisz
Franz Reisz (born April 3, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 1984 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American illustrator.
Life
Franz Reisz worked as a graphic artist in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he had to flee to France. His wife Lili managed to flee to the USA, letters from Franz Reisz to Lili have survived from this time. After the German conquest of France in 1940, he was arrested in Paris in July 1941 and taken to the French internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Meslay-du-Maine . Since the German Foreign Ministry demanded the extradition of Jews from the Vichy regime , Reisz was deported on June 25, 1942 via the Camp de transit de Pithiviers to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was registered with prisoner number 42447. In the concentration camp he worked in the office.
In January 1945 he was evacuated to Mauthausen concentration camp and liberated in Ebensee concentration camp in May .
In a hospital in France he began to work artistically again. His drawings and watercolors were created under the impression of what he experienced.
Reisz emigrated to the USA.
Works
- Paul Ilg : The girl of the Bastille: novel of a filial love . Rascher & Cie. AG, Zurich 1933.
- Mirjam Singer : Benni flies to the Promised Land: a book for Jewish children . With many pictures v. Franz Reisz. 1936
- Claudette Bloch et al. a .: Témoinages sur Auschwitz . Foreword by Jean Cassou . Drawings by François Reisz. Édition de l'Amicale des déportés d'Auschwitz, Paris 1946. Publisher: Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotes
- Seven men: Austromarxism; a series of lectures / Friends of Austrian Labor . Drawings: Franz Reisz. Price, New York 1949
literature
- Marina Stütz (Ed.): Surviving and resisting . Cologne 1980
- Janet Blatter, Sybil Milton: Art of the Holocaust . Introduction Henry Friedlander . Orbis, London 1982
- Sybille Goldmann, Myrah Adams Rösing: Art to survive: Drawn in Auschwitz . Ulm 1989
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Reisz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Reisz , in: The eternal holocaust , part 6, Deviant Art, February 2007
- The Lili Reisz Collection, 1938–1949 , at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Franz Reisz , at the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reisz, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reisz, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1984 |
| Place of death | New York City |