Salomon Garf

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Self-portrait 1914
Still life with Beethoven death mask

Salomon Garf (born December 6, 1879 in Amsterdam , † August 27, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist. He was known for his portraits and still lifes.

He was born into a family of Jewish diamond dealers to Emanuel Garf and Sophia Kok. Instead of working in the family business, he chose a career in the arts and studied at the Institute for Applied Art Education (1892–1895), at the National Normal Academy for Applied Arts (1895–1899) and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (1899–1905) with August Allebé , Carel Dake and Nicolaas van der Waay . In 1904 he was nominated for the Prix ​​de Rome , but the award went to Jan Sluijters .

After graduating, he moved to the Laren artists' colony in 1905 , where he married Cosette Eva Baszanger (1882–1928) two years later. In 1914 he won the Willink van Collen Prize . In the same year he moved back to Amsterdam with his family. In Laren he mostly painted rural interiors and still lifes. After establishing himself in Amsterdam, he mainly painted portraits and interior scenes with elegantly dressed women. His wife died in 1928 and he never remarried.

He became a member of the Kunstenaarsvereniging Sint Lucas and the Arti et Amicitiae Society and in 1933 received the gold medal of Queen Wilhelmina . In 1938 he became a member of the Arti et Amicitiae board, but was expelled from the organization in 1941 by order of the German occupation authorities. Nevertheless, in 1942 Garf's confiscated painting Stilleven met doodskop was handed over to the police in The Hague to be hung there.

Garf went into hiding, became active in the resistance and helped produce false identification cards . On August 6, 1943, he was arrested and taken from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. His son, press photographer André Emanuel Garf (* 1908), had already been killed in Auschwitz the year before. His students were able to save the artist's works from the studio before they were confiscated by the Nazi authorities.

literature

Web links

Commons : Salomon Garf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Salomon Garf. In: joodsmonument.nl. February 28, 2006, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Francisca Rosa Elisabeth Kuyvenhoven: De Staat koopt art. De geschiedenis van de collectie 20ste-eeuwse kunst van het Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap en voorgangers (1932-1992). In: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 2007, p. 124 , accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Simon Barteling: Arti's triomf en tragedie. In: Articula No. February 8 , 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ André Emanuel Garf. In: joodsmonument.nl. April 24, 1908, accessed November 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Garf, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp