Friedl Dicker was a prolific and multitalented artist, producing work in theater, architecture, textiles, graphic design, drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 1926, in Vienna, she founded Atelier singer-Dicker with a classmate Franz Singer. In 1934 she was arrested by the Gestapo for anti-Fascist activities and fled to Prague, where she taught art classes for Jewish refugees. In 1942 she was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where she secretly taught art to the children there, gifting them with tools for the expression of their fears of the hunger, disease and death in their midst. Dicker-Brandeis (she had married in 1936) and thirty of her students perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944.
Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival collects for the first time in one volume the children's art of Theresienstadt, unpublished paintings of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, and historical photographs, as well as three essays of interest to historians, art educators/therapists, and Holocaust scholars -- providing an important new interdisciplinary approach to exploring the power of art toteach, express, commemorate, and -- perhaps most importantly -- heal.
Friedl Dicker was a prolific and multitalented artist, producing work in theater, architecture, textiles, graphic design, drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 1926, in Vienna, she founded Atelier singer-Dicker with a classmate Franz Singer. In 1934 she was arrested by the Gestapo for anti-Fascist activities and fled to Prague, where she taught art classes for Jewish refugees. In 1942 she was sent to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where she secretly taught art to the children there, gifting them with tools for the expression of their fears of the hunger, disease and death in their midst. Dicker-Brandeis (she had married in 1936) and thirty of her students perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944.
Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival collects for the first time in one volume the children's art of Theresienstadt, unpublished paintings of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, and historical photographs, as well as three essays of interest to historians, art educators/therapists, and Holocaust scholars -- providing an important new interdisciplinary approach to exploring the power of art toteach, express, commemorate, and -- perhaps most importantly -- heal.
Imprint | Herodias,Canada |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 2000 |
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Editors | Anne Dutlinger, editor |
Authors | Anne Dutlinger, et al |
Dimensions | 215 x 250 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-928746-10-2 |
Barcode | 9781928746102 |
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LSN | 1-928746-10-1 |