5 postcards of Polish artist Maurice Mendjisky [1889-1951] depicting the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation.
DESSIN DE MAURICE MENDIJISKY … martyrs du ghetto varsovie. The postcards contain hard scenes from Mendjisky’s memory of parents and children starving in the Warsaw ghetto.
Maurice Mendesisky [1889-1951]: Born in Lodz, Poland. In 1906 he left Poland for Berlin to study at the Academy of Music. He became interested in painting and moved to Paris to continue his career as an artist. Soon he caught the attention of the art world of Paris, became friends with Renoir and Picasso, and presented an exhibition with George Petit. During the Second World War he was involved in the activities of the French underground. The Nazis arrested his wife and executed her, and Mandzisky managed to escape. His wife’s death had a deep effect on him, and from then until his dying day he was dealing with the subject of the Holocaust And the French resistance during it.
Very fine condition.
