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<p>Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-six. While in exile in the south of France from 1940 until her deportation in 1943, she created some 1,325 small gouaches using only the three primary colors plus white. From these she gathered nearly 800 into a work that she titled <em>Life? or Theater?: A Play with Music</em>, which employs images, texts, and musical and cinematic references. The narrative, informed by Salomon's experiences as a talented, cultured, and assimilated German Jew, depicts a life lived in the shadow of Nazi persecution and a family history of suicide, but also reveals moments of intense happiness and hope. The tone of the gouaches becomes increasingly raw and urgent as Salomon is further enmeshed in grim personal as well as political events. The result is a deeply moving meditation on life, art, and death on the eve of the Holocaust.</p><p>Salomon's art, discovered after the war in the south of France where she had left it for safekeeping, was first exhibited in 1961 and has gained steadily in reputation since then. A major exhibition focused on <em>Life? or Theater?</em> appeared at the Royal Academy of

Author

Monica Bohm-Duchen; Charlotte Salomon; Michael P Steinberg

Publisher

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801439711

Subjects

Art, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24