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Exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum |
CHARLOTTE
SALOMON
Life? Or Theatre?
Charlotte Salomon, born in Berlin in 1917, grew up in
an assimilated Jewish family as the daughter of a surgeon and a singer.
Hitler’s rise to power changed the family’s situation drastically and Charlotte
escaped in 1939 to her grandparents’ estate in the South of France. The
Gestapo arrested her there in 1943 and deported her to Auschwitz, where she was
murdered. Before her arrest she gave her complete work to a friend,
reminding him: “Please keep this safe. This is my entire life!” October
2nd, Opening Reception, 5-8p.m.
German Consul General Rolf Schütte, and Executive-Vice President of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Portland, Charles R. Schiffman.
Additional Programming:
Music Tribute
The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
October 19th, 2008, 3 -5 p.m.
Join us for an afternoon of music, ranging from classical Lieder, chamber music,
Yiddish and German folksongs, and popular pieces of the 1930s–music that
Charlotte Salomon identified as inspiration for her paintings. Stefan and Edith
Minde lead the Chehalem String Quartet, Mary Ann Foy, soprano and Lisa Actor,
alto. Edmund Stone narrates excerpts from Salomon’s writings.
Lecture
To Create Her World Anew: Charlotte Salomon’s Story in Art
November 23rd, 2008
Lecture by Prof. Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, historian
at San Francisco State University, Visiting Professor at Stanford University,
author of To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era, and foremost
authority on Charlotte Salomon.
Movie Night
November 2008 at the German House
Film showing: Die Liebe, mein Schatz, ist bodenlos (Love, my darling, is
bottomless; 1998) directed by Sabine Willmann. In German with English subtitles.
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CHARLOTTE SALOMON:
Into the Heart
of Humankind
A joint project of the Oregon Jewish Museum and
the German American Society of Portland
October 2nd, 2008 – January 4th, 2009
Museum Hours:
Tue-Fri 10:30am-3:00pm
Sun 1:00pm-4:00pm
310 NW Davis Street, Portland 97209 phone 503/226-3600
25 reproduction gouaches painted by Charlotte
Salomon between 1940 and 1942
Exhibition courtesy of the Goethe Institute Los
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