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Otto Karas-Kaufman (1896-1944)
A view of Prague
Signed OKaras, oil on canvas
39.2 x 35 cm.
and
Otto Karas-Kaufman (1896-1944)
A view of Terezin
Signed OKaras, dated 1944, ink and watercolour on paper
11.5 x 16.2 cm.
Otto Karas-Kaufman was born in a traditional Jewish family in Prague in 1896. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and worked as an illustrator. He did many paintings, engravings and sketches of his native city. He was deported to Theresienstadt, where he signed many sketches "OKaras". He was deported to Auschwitz in September 1944, where he perished.
See Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton, Art of the Holocaust, p. 252
Both paintings were most probably executed in Theresienstadt. (2)
A view of Prague
Signed OKaras, oil on canvas
39.2 x 35 cm.
and
Otto Karas-Kaufman (1896-1944)
A view of Terezin
Signed OKaras, dated 1944, ink and watercolour on paper
11.5 x 16.2 cm.
Otto Karas-Kaufman was born in a traditional Jewish family in Prague in 1896. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and worked as an illustrator. He did many paintings, engravings and sketches of his native city. He was deported to Theresienstadt, where he signed many sketches "OKaras". He was deported to Auschwitz in September 1944, where he perished.
See Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton, Art of the Holocaust, p. 252
Both paintings were most probably executed in Theresienstadt. (2)