Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak (born August 12, 1933 in Vilnius ) is a painter from Lithuania who has lived in Tel Aviv , Israel since 1949 , and temporarily in New York. He is a survivor of the Holocaust .
Life
Samuel Bak comes from a Jewish-Lithuanian family. After the occupation of his hometown Vilna by the German army during World War II , the city's Jews had to move into the ghetto in September 1941 . His father was sent to a labor camp while the mother and child escaped from the ghetto and went to hide in the city's Benedictine monastery .
When the Germans suspected the monastery of cooperating with the Soviet armed forces, the Bak family had to flee again and returned to the Vilna ghetto. After the ghetto was liquidated in September 1943, Bak and his mother were sent to the HKP 526 labor camp, where his father was also imprisoned. In March 1944, Bak's mother fled the camp and Samuel was smuggled out by his father in a sack full of sawdust. Mother and son again hid in the Benedictine monastery, where they stayed for eleven months until the city was liberated by Soviet troops. Samuel's father was shot dead in Ponary shortly before the liberation .
Samuel Bak studied from 1946 to 1948 a. a. at the Blocherer School in Munich . Since 1952 he has worked at the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem . He designs sets and costumes for the Habimah and the Ohel theaters in Tel Aviv . From 1956 on, Bak studied for three years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Jean Souverbie.
Bak had solo exhibitions at Carnegie International in Pittsburgh , the Tel Aviv Museum of Art , the Jewish Museum Frankfurt , the Bezalel Museum and Yad Vashem .
Honors
- 2017: Honorary Citizen of Vilnius
Works
- Samuel Bak: Painted in words: Portrait of a lost time. With a foreword by Amos Oz . Translated into German by Andreas Nohl . Beltz, Weinheim 2007, ISBN 3-407-85766-7 (autobiography) Table of contents
- Lawrence L. Langer: Return to Vilna in the Art of Samuel Bak. Pucker Gallery, Boston 2007, ISBN 1-879985-17-9 .
- Gerd Lindner (Ed.): Samuel Bak Retrospective 1946–1997: Exhibition in the Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen , June 13 to September 6, 1998. Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen 1998, ISBN 3-9805312-4-4 (illustrated book with Texts from 3-8090-2123-7, Eva Atlan, Lawrence L. Langer).
literature
- Rolf Kallenbach: Bak: Monuments of our dreams. Limes, Wiesbaden and Munich 1977, ISBN 3-8090-2123-7 .
- Lawrence L. Langer: The Game Continues. Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1999, ISBN 1-87998-503-9 .
- Lawrence L. Langer: Image and Reality in the Art of Samuel Bak . In: Matías Martínez (ed.): The Holocaust and the arts. Mediality and authenticity of depictions of the Holocaust in literature, film, video, painting, monuments, comics and music . Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89528-459-9 , pp. 135-153.
Web links
- Literature by and about Samuel Bak in the catalog of the German National Library
- Retrospective in Osnabrück 2007
- “Experienced stories”: Samuel Bak , Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR 5), July 5, 2009
- Samuel Bak on the Yad Vashem website
- About Samuel Bak's solo exhibition in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
- Catalog raisonné
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garbės piliečiu paskelbtas Samuelis Bakas - vilniuje.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bak, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Lithuanian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius |