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Charlotte Salomon: from Leben? oder Theater? Ein singspiel   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Charlotte Salomon  (1917–1943)  wikidata:Q213735 q:en:Charlotte Salomon
 
Charlotte Salomon
Alternative names
Sharlota Salomon; Charlotte Kann; C. Salomon
Description German artist, painter, author and writer
Date of birth/death 16 April 1917 Edit this at Wikidata 10 October 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Berlin Edit this at Wikidata Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1939 until 1943
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q213735
Title
from
Leben? oder Theater? Ein singspiel
Date between circa 1940 and circa 1942
date QS:P571,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium gouache on paper
medium QS:P186,Q204330;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 32.5 cm (12.7 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25.0U174728
institution QS:P195,Q702726
Accession number
4175
Exhibition history Fodor Museum, Amsterdam, 1961 (brochure)
Credit line Charlotte Salomon Foundation
Inscriptions Artist's monogram CS bottom right.
Notes
  • This is a combined image showing a gouache together with its transparency by Charlotte Salomon, part of her principal work Life? or Theatre? The gouache is placed by editors at the close of Scene 1 in the Prelude. For the Jewish Historical Museum interactive page use this link.
  • The associated music is the Christmas carol "Am Weihnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen" - "The Christmas tree is bright with candles" (the preceding gouache includes Christmas scenes).
  • The gouache depicts the fictional Charlotte Kann (representing Salomon herself and always referred to in the third person) in bed with her mother Franziska. The text reads:
  • FRANZISKA 'Im Himmel ist es viel schöner, als es auf dieser Erde ist - und wenn dann deine Mutti ein Engelein geworden ist, dann kommt sie runter und bringt dem Häschen und bringt einen Brief, indem sie sagt, wie es im Himmel, wie es im Himmel oben ist.' Franziska war ziemlich sentimental veranlagt. Oft nahm sie das Kind zu sich ins Bett und erzählte ihr von einem Leben nach dem Tode in himmlischen Sphären - das ganz herrlich sein sollte und nachdem sie furchtbare Sehnsucht zu haben schien, und sie fragte Charlotte oft, ob es nicht schön wäre, wenn ihre Mutter ein Engel mit Flügeln würde. Charlotte fand das auch sehr schön, nur aber bat sie die Mutter, nicht zu vergessen, ihr in einem Brief - den die als Engel persönlich zu überbringen hatte und auf Charlottens Fensterbrett deponiert werden mußte - mitzuteilen, wie es im Himmel oben sei. Nach derselben Melodie.
  • FRANZISKA 'In Heaven it's much nicer than down here - and when Mommy has turned into a little angel she'll come down and bring you her dear little kitty and a letter telling you what it's like up there, what it's like up in Heaven'. Franziska was of a somewhat sentimental nature at heart. She often took the child to bed with her to explain what life after death was like in the celestial spheres, how simply glorious it all must be and how frightfully she longed to be there too, and she often asked Charlotte how splendid it would be if her Mommy turned into an angel with wings. Charlotte could only agree, but asked her mother especially not to forget to tell her in the letter, which she had to deliver personally as an angel and leave on Charlotte's windowsill, what it was all like up there. To the same tune.
References
  • Paul Tillich and Emil Strauss, Charlotte: A Diary in Pictures, 1963, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World LCCN 63014210.
  • (ed.) Judith Herzberg, Charlotte Salomon: Life or Theater?. The Viking Press, New York, 1981. ISBN 0-670-21283-0.
  • Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, To Paint Her Life. Harper Collins, 1994. ISBN 0-06-017105-7.
  • Michael P. Steinberg (Editor), Monica Bohm-Duchen (Editor), Reading Charlotte Salomon, Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8014-3971-X.LCCN 63014210.
  • Christine Fischer-Defoy and Judith C. E. Belinfante, Biography 1917-194, in Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998, ISBN 0-900946-66-0 (pp. 15-25).
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