111 Dessins de Boris-Taslitzky faits à Buchenwald - 111 horrifying board drawings made in the Buchenwald death camp by camp prisoner Boris Taslitzky while imprisoned in the camp. Numbered edition 9/144. Printed on thick and fine paper. Published by La Bibliothèque française Paris, 1946. First edition.
In the drawings, Taslitzky describes prisoners who were with him in the camp in difficult conditions - returning from forced labor under the threat of the Sonderkommando, prisoners pushing in the wheelbarrows their murdered comrades, prisoners on bunks bewildered and with broken bodies, daily forced labor in the camp, prisoners with broken body parts, gatherings of prisoners seeking a way out, and more difficult to view scenes he saw with his own eyes while in the camp. Taslitzky made the drawings in secret on stolen German paper, during his stay in the camp .
Boris Taslitzky [1911-2005], French painter who became famous in the 20th century mainly due to the series of drawings before us. A revolutionary hero, who survived the Holocaust thanks to his resourcefulness. Born in Paris to Russian parents who immigrated to France after the failure of the Russian Revolution in 1905. Already at the age of 15 his paintings glorified the leading galleries in France. In 1935 he joined the French Communist Party. During World War II he was drafted into the French army in August 1939. In November 1941 he was arrested by the Germans and transferred to prisons in the French region, where he was imprisoned for about two years. In July 1944 he was deported in one of the last deportations to the Buchenwald death camp. During his stay in the camp under harsh bodily conditions, Taslitzky created pencil drawings documenting the daily routine of the camp, he created portraits of prisoners, he also used to paint on the walls of the camp. After the war he published these drawings in the publication before us in a limited edition. After the war he returned to art.
The binder is complete with 111 plates: 100 drawings, 6 portraits, and 5 watercolor illustrations. Includes an 11 page introduction by Julien Cain. The drawings are all described in three languages: French, English, and Russian, and numbered.
22x26 cm. Condition Good - Very Good .
