Keywords: Charlotte Salomon - JHM 4925.jpg Leben oder Theater Ein singespiel http //www jhm nl/collectie/museumstukken/04925 Museum page ca 1940 1942 Creator Charlotte Salomon gouache paper cm 32 5 25 0 Institution Joods Historisch Museum Paul Tillich and Emil Strauss Charlotte A Diary in Pictures 1963 New York Harcourt Brace World http //lccn loc gov/63014210 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 http //lccn loc gov/63014210 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 Griselda Pollock Life-Mapping in ed Griselda Pollock Conceptual Odysseys Passages to Cultural Analysis I B Tauris Co Ltd London 2007 ISBN 978-1-84511-522-7 pp 63-88 object history exhibition history Fodor Museum Amsterdam 1961 brochure credit line Charlotte Salomon Foundation Page number 558 centre bottom 43 691556 7 330430 in summer 1942 the proprietor later recalled her humming while she worked but the location depicted is undoubtedly the gardens of the Villa L'Ermitage in Villefranche-sur-Mer where she and her grandparents has been given refuge by a wealthy American of German descent named Ottilie Moore Salomon's work was http //www jhm nl/collectie/thema 27s/charlotte-salomon/leben-oder-theater 4155-2 dedicated to her The villa was located on the Avenue Cauvin The Salomons lived in a small house at the back of the extensive gardens The entire area has been redeveloped but the location 43 703977 7 305241 can be determined from a surviving aerial photograph of the time published p 23 in the Royal Academy edition of her work see also Pollock pp 73-5 After completing the work Salomon returned to Villa L'Ermitage where she spent the next year selecting and collating the 784 gouaches and some 200 transparent overlays that comprise the work from the 1357 gouaches she had executed for it She left the work with Georges Moridis a family doctor who was also active in the resistance movement some weeks before she was deported by Alois Brunner Moridis' widow recalled her words as Take this It's all my life - C'est toute ma vie Felstiner p 236 Alfred Wolfsohn Salomon's first love represented by Amadeus Daberlohn in the work are as follows und sie sah - mit wachgeträumten Augen all die Schönheit um sich her - sah das Meer spürte die Sonne und wusste sie musste für eine Zeit von der menschlichen Oberfläche verschwinden und dafür alle Opfer bringen - - - um sich aus der Tiefe ihre Welt neu zu schaffen Und dabei entstand das Leben oder das Theater LangSwitch And with dream awakened eyes she saw all the beauty around her saw the sea felt the sun and knew she had to vanish for a while from the human surface and make every sacrifice in order to create her world anew out of the depths And from that came Life or Theater Franz Kafka's short story In the Penal Colony in which sentence of execution is inscribed on the victim's back and describes the image as combining the innocence of the mermaid of Copenhagen with violent narrative Steinberg pp 1-2 Griselda Pollock calls it an image of the work's beginning an affirmation of the possibility of life in that place Pollock p 83 Mary Felstiner comments that the transparent easel lets reality reach Salomon straight through her art Life may mean the forces she couldn't contain while Theater suggests she might still nevertheless master her story by recording it Felstiner xiv PD-old-70 Uruguay Round Agreements Act URAA depending on whether their original publication in the US coincided or not with their publication abroad It is not Commons policy to host URAA restored works accession number 4155 <gallery> File Charlotte Salomon - JHM 4924-02 jpg Text on page immediately preceding File Charlotte Salomon - JHM - 4925T jpg Transparent overlay </gallery> Uploaded with UploadWizard Charlotte Salomon |