Malva Shellk

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Malva Schalk ( February 18, 1882 , Prague - after May 18, 1944 , Auschwitz concentration camp ; also Malvina Schalkova ) was an Austrian Jewish painter.

Life

She was born in Prague into a German-speaking Jewish intellectual family.

Her niece was Lisa Fittko . She attended school in Prague and Vrchlabí (Hohenelbe); then she began to study art at the women's academy in Munich , which she continued in private lessons in Vienna. She earned her living as a painter in Vienna, in her studio directly above the Theater an der Wien , until July 1938, when she was forced to flee from the National Socialists and had to leave all her pictures behind. Only about 30 works from this period have appeared again, two of which were found in the Historical Museum of Vienna. One of them, an almost life-size portrait of the actor Max Pallenberg executed in oil paint , was determined by the Vienna Restitution Commission to be returned to the legal successor in 2006 as part of the reparation process .

Schalek was established in February 1942 to Theresienstadt deported where they produced more than 100 drawings and paintings with watercolors that represented life in the camp. Because she refused to portray a doctor who collaborated with the Nazis , she was deported to Auschwitz on May 18, 1944 , and subsequently murdered there.

Malva Schalk was single and remained childless.

plant

Her work, especially her drawings from the camp in Theresienstadt, has a sober realism. The drawings were described by Tom L. Freudenheim , director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, in 1978 as "perhaps the best and most complete artistic oeuvre that survived the Holocaust". It was like a miracle when the drawings were found after the liberation. Today, most of them are in the art collection of the House of Ghetto Fighters on Kibbutz Lochamej HaGeta'ot in Israel.

  • Synagogue in Theresienstadt, between 1942 and 1944

  • Arrival in Theresienstadt, between 1942 and 1944

  • between 1942 and 1944

literature

  • Ilka Wonschik: "It was probably a different star we lived on ..." Artists in Theresienstadt. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-026-1 .
  • Eighth report of the leading City Council for Culture and Science on the transfer of ownership of art and cultural objects from the collections of the museums of the City of Vienna and the Vienna Library in the City Hall in accordance with the municipal council resolution of April 29, 1999. (Restitution report 2007). Vienna 2008. - Full text online (PDF; 1.2 MB) .

Web links

Commons : Malva Schalk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon / Ekstein. - See the article about her prominent family who were actively involved in the Czech national movement ( Homepage of Dr. Catherine Stodolsky ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 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 note. , English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lrz.de
  2. ↑ a b Eighth Report , p. 95.
  3. ^ Eighth report , p. 91.


personal data
SURNAME Schalk, Malva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schalkova, Malvina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Jewish painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH after May 18, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz