Savu Petra Dan
Savu Petra Dan (born 1903 in Bucharest ; died March 16, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Romanian-Israeli painter.
Life
Savu Petra Dan studied from 1926 to 1933 at the Bucharest School of Art . He had an assignment as court painter to Carol II. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1942 to 1945 . In 1946 he was awarded a prize by the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
He was able to sell paintings to the Bucharest National Museum . His pictures, which were owned by the state, were also shown after 1945 and distributed among various branches of the National Museum. After 1958 they disappeared in the depots and have been missing since the 1990s.
Dan emigrated to Israel in 1961 for political reasons with great difficulty with his wife Thereza (1913–1976) . He had his first exhibition there in Netanya . Dan was a prolific painter and also sold his paintings abroad. Dan moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974 and lived in Frankfurt am Main from 1978 .
Dan painted expressively at first, but also surreally in his later work. He discussed imprisonment in the concentration camp.
literature
- Stefan Schulze: Dan, Savu Petra . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 62. [Communication from Ulrike Kühnel, Wiesbaden]
- Wiebke Peters: The rediscovery of a great painter , in: Jewish Voice from Germany , July 2014 Link to the English newspaper edition
Web links
- Savu Petra Dan - a painter who survived the Holocaust in Bergen-Belsen
- Savu Petra Dan , at: Kunstkontor Wiesbaden
Individual evidence
- ^ Savu Petra Dan. The forgotten painter of the Holocaust , in: Jewish Voice from Germany , April 2016, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dan, Savu Petra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-Israeli painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1986 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |