A joint project of the Oregon Jewish Museum and
the German American Society of Portland
Charlotte Salomon, Love is a Rebellious Bird, gouache, c. 1942.
Courtesy Joods Historisch Museum.
Opening Reception was
Thursday, October 2, 2008
5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Guests: German Consul General Rolf E. Schuette,
Executive-Vice President of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Portland, Charles R. Schiffman
The Oregon Jewish Museum and the German American Society present an exhibition of museum quality reproductions by Charlotte Salomon on loan from the Goethe Institute in Los Angeles. Salomon, a German artist, fled to the South of France to escape the Nazis. She managed to hand over her portfolio of gouaches and drawings to a friend before she was caught and deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. The original artworks are in the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
Charlotte Salomon, The Wedding, gouache, c. 1940.
Courtesy Joods Historisch Museum.
