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Charlotte Salomon: from Leben? oder Theater? Ein singspiel   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Charlotte Salomon  (1917–1943)  wikidata:Q213735 q:en:Charlotte Salomon
 
Charlotte Salomon
Alternative names
Sharlota Salomon; Charlotte Kann
Description German artist, painter, author and writer
Date of birth/death 16 April 1917 Edit this at Wikidata 10 October 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Berlin Oświęcim
Work period from 1939 until 1943
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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artist QS:P170,Q213735
Title
from
Leben? oder Theater? Ein singspiel
Date between circa 1940 and circa 1942
date QS:P571,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium gouache on paper
medium QS:P186,Q204330;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 32.5 × 25 cm (12.7 × 9.8 in)
institution QS:P195,Q702726
Accession number
4351
Exhibition history Fodor Museum, Amsterdam, 1961 (brochure)
Credit line Charlotte Salomon Foundation
Inscriptions Artist's monogram CS top left.
Notes
  • This work is a gouache by Charlotte Salomon, part of her principal work Life? or Theatre?. It is placed by editors towards the end of Act 2 of the Prelude. It depicts the fictional Charlotte Kann at work after taking drawing lessons following a discouraging start that had seen her fail her first test for admission to the Academy of Arts. She subsequently gains admission (Felstiner pp. 36-9). Salomon herself attended the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst (United State Schools for Pure and Applied Arts) in Berlin from 1936 to 1938 on the strength of the Gesetz gegen die Überfüllung deutscher Schulen und Hochschulen (Law Against Overfilling the German Schools and Colleges), which provided that up to 1.5% of the student body might be of Jewish origin if their fathers had served at the front in the First World War (Salomon's father had been a military doctor). But by Summer 1938 it became too dangerous for Charlotte to attend in case her Jewish backgound was discovered and she did not return, despite winning a prize (Fischer-Defoy and Belinfante, pp. 17-21).
  • There is no text, music or transparency associated with this gouache. For the Jewish Historical Museum interactive page use this link.
  • Commentaries:
    • Mary Felstiner, Salomon's principal biographer, notes that the chair, shoes, fruits, and sunflowers make the picture a homage to Vincent van Gogh, who himself had faced a discouraging start to his career. (p. 37).
    • Judith Belinfante notes that Salomon scribbled a comment in pencil (at JHM 4918?): "That which van Gogh attained later in life, ... a brushstroke of unprecedented lightness, which unfortunately seems to have a distinctly pathological side, I have attained already" (Herzberg, viii). Felstiner remarks that van Gogh is the only artist Salomon mentions in her notes (p. 66).
References
  • Paul Tillich and Emil Strauss, Charlotte: A Diary in Pictures, 1963, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World LCCN 63014210.
  • (ed.) Judith Herzberg, Charlotte Salomon: Life or Theater?. The Viking Press, New York, 1981. ISBN 0-670-21283-0.
  • Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, To Paint Her Life. Harper Collins, 1994. ISBN 0-06-017105-7.
  • Michael P. Steinberg (Editor), Monica Bohm-Duchen (Editor), Reading Charlotte Salomon, Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8014-3971-X.
  • Christine Fischer-Defoy and Judith C. E. Belinfante, Biography 1917-194, in Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998, ISBN 0-900946-66-0 (pp. 15-25)
Source/Photographer Museum page
Permission
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  • The bulk of Charlotte Salomon's work was published for the purposes of US law when her estate gifted her work to the Charlotte Salomon Foundation at the Joods Historisch Museum in 1971. If follows that the bulk of her work only enters the Public Domain in the US 95 years later at the end of 2066. In addition an earlier tranche of some 80 gouaches published in 1963 both in the US and abroad entered the Public Domain in the US in 1992 because their copyright was not renewed. However these gouaches may have had their copyright restored under the terms of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) depending on whether their original publication in the US coincided or not with their publication abroad. It is not Commons policy to host URAA restored works.

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