Mommie Black
Mommie Schwarz (actually Samuel Reader Schwarz; born July 28, 1876 in Zutphen , † November 19, 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a Dutch painter.
Schwarz was born the tenth of eleven children of readers Schwarz and Julia Winter. He lived in New York from 1897 to 1899 and in Madrid in 1903 . From 1895 to 1897 he studied painting at the Antwerp Art School .
In 1905 he came to Berlin to study German Expressionism . There he met his future wife, the painter Else Berg from Ratibor . In 1911 they both came to the Netherlands and settled in Schoorl . There they made contacts with the Bergen school .
In 1920 Schwarz married Else Berg . Both moved to Amsterdam . Together they visited Mallorca , countries of the former Yugoslavia , Turkey and Spain . At the beginning of the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht in 1939, they refused to wear the Jewish star. They were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp , brought to Auschwitz and murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on November 19, 1942.
Schwarz 'works show influences from the Bergen School, especially Leo Gestel and Charley Toorop . He mainly created landscapes, nudes, portraits and still lifes. He painted some works together with Elsa Berg. Many of his pictures are in the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.
He was also engaged in commercial art, such as book covers and posters.
literature
- Linda Horn: Else Berg en Mommie Schwarz - Art couple in Amsterdam 1910–1942. ISBN 978-94-91196-18-8
- Piet Spijk, De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker. Kunstverzamelaar in Amsterdam en Bergen. Waanders, Zwolle 1997
Web links
- Mommie Schwarz , entry on the website of the Joods Historisch Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, mommie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Black, Samuel Readers (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zutphen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp |