2007-10-11
The exhibition “Charlotte Salomon. Life? or Theatre?” at the Jewish Museum Berlin will guide you through a tragic story of Charlotte Salomon’s life. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist, who was born in Berlin but had to move to France where her grandparents lived. Both her mother and her grandmother committed suicide. To forget about this tragedy, she painted over 1,300 gouaches with the use of elements from films and comics. Some of those were sent to the artist’s friend before Charlotte appeared in a death camp where she would be murdered. The exhibition shows 277 of those pictures and will give you an emotional overview of the artists’s family, her political background, love affairs and internal life. Gouaches are complemented by photographs and documents which relate to Charlotte Salomon. Another part of the exhibition is an installation by Chantal Akerman, with a stress on a story of her teenage grandmother, who was murdered in Auschwitz. The exhibition is opened until 25 November.

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