Arbeit Macht Frei / František Reichentál Holocaust illustrations SIGNED 1946 Art

$500.0
Religion
Judaism
Country/Region of Manufacture
Slovakia
Modified Item
No
condition
Used

Up for sale is a folio of Sixteen illustrated plates.


This portfolio of drawings chronicles the barbarity of life as experienced in the Nazi’s concentration camps. A powerful and horrifying work by the Jewish-Slovak artist František Reichentál (1895-1971). Documenting his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz in the final years of world war two.


Introduction in Slovak and English by Vojtech Winterstein. One of 1000 numbered copies (no’ 143) , SIGNED by the artist.


Published in Bratislava in 1946.


34.5*26 cm approx. bound with ribbon (original).


 

 

 


 


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