Hilda Zadiková

Hilda Zadiková , born as Hilda Löwy , also Hilda Lohsing ( June 23, 1890 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died December 25, 1974 in the USA ) was a Czechoslovak- American graphic artist.

Life

Hilda Löwy's parents Germanized their family name in Lohsing. Hilda Lohsing studied painting in Prague with Hermine Laukota , then in Munich at the women's academy and at the private painting school with Heinrich Knirr . She created illustrations and in 1920 married the sculptor Arnold Zadikow , with whom she created glass engravings. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, they went to Czechoslovakia and worked at the Moser glass factory in Karlsbad . When the factory was Aryanized in 1938 , Zadikow lost his position as artistic director, and she supported the family in Prague with painting lessons and the sale of self-made lampshades.

On May 15, 1942, they were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto with their daughter Marianka, who was born in 1923, and Arnold Zadikow died there in 1943 because of the prison conditions. In the ghetto she worked in the “Lautscher Werkstätte”, where the prisoners copied “Old Masters” pictures on behalf of the SS , and designed flower drawings and stage sets. She was liberated in Theresienstadt at the beginning of May 1945 and returned to Prague with her daughter, where she again worked as an illustrator. They emigrated to Israel and from there to the USA in 1948.

literature

• Jörn Wendland: The warehouse from picture to picture. Narrative series of images of prisoners from Nazi forced camps . Vienna: Böhlau, 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50581-3 , p. 208
• Debórah Dwork (Ed.): The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow . Translation from Czech and German by Marianka Zadikow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-226-51186-3 (poetry album by Marianne Zadikow May, Hilda Zadikova's daughter)

Web links

• Hilda Zadikova , at ghetto-theresienstadt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Zadikow (1884–1943), at holocaust.cz