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Charlotte Salomon, the daughter of a highly cultivated Jewish family in Berlin and an original writer and artist, was deported to Auschwitz and murdered at the age of twenty-six. In her final work Life? or Theatre? Salomon envisioned the circumstances surrounding the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. Life? or Theatre? consists of 769 sequenced autobiographical gouache paintings and is the focus of Darcy C. Buerkle's remarkable recent book Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomom and an Archive of Suicide. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Buerkle, Darcy C. Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.
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English
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Jewish women artists Suicide in art Suicide--Sociological aspects Jewish women in art Jews, German Germany France Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943 1900-1933 1933-1943
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