Charlotte Salomon: Retratos da Guerra

Abstract

Abstract: Through a brief bibliographic review, this article analyses the work of the German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, who died in Auschwitz, shortly after handing over her work to a friend of her family. It is important to note that Charlotte conceives her work from portraits of events experienced by close people as well as from her first-hand experience, including moments of escape from the Nazis. Her life history, full of tragic situations, is represented in gouache from a series of paintings compiled in a book entitled: Life? or Theatre? The uniqueness of her artistic expression, coined through paintings that intertwine with various forms of art, such as literature and music, depicts the artist amidst the chaos experienced during World War II.

Keywords: Holocaust. Salomon. Art.