Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 4:00 pm PDT
Art clandestinely drawn in a concentration camp, saved under floorboard, and reconnected with the artist after the war brings the daily struggles in Theresienstadt to life.
Though imprisoned and forced into slave labor, Lichtblau-Leskly continued to use art to express himself, document life around him, and make sense of the horrid situation. Lichtblau-Leskly’s original sketches, miraculously kept secret and saved by his wife, were collected alongside larger scale, more detailed pieces the artist created in Israel after the war, and kindly donated to Holocaust Museum LA in the 1990s by the artist’s family.
Join our Vice President of Education & Exhibits – Jordanna Gessler, and our Collection Manager – Christie Jovanovic, as they take us through the Erich Lichtblau-Leskly Collection, taking a closer look at the unique way that the artist created satiric and cartoonish representations of daily life in Theresienstadt, using a light, ironic style to depict shocking scenes of brutality.