Elżbieta Nadel’s Images from Home: 18 Sketches from Nature, Lvov, 1942
This article is a preliminary attempt to analyze Elżbieta Nadel’s drawing collection “Obrazki domowe. 18 szkiców z natury, Lwów 1942” [Images from Home: 18 Sketches from Nature, Lvov 1942]. The author combines methodologies from art history, history and literary criticism. Focusing on the materialit...
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| Language: | English |
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Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2020-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://miejsce.asp.waw.pl/en/english-elzbieta-nadels-images-from-home-18-sketches-from-nature-lvov-1942/ |
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| Summary: | This article is a preliminary attempt to analyze Elżbieta Nadel’s drawing collection “Obrazki domowe. 18 szkiców z natury, Lwów 1942” [Images from Home: 18 Sketches from Nature, Lvov 1942]. The author combines methodologies from art history, history and literary criticism. Focusing on the materiality and intermediality of the work, she analyzes “Obrazki domowe” as a historical source and personal document of the Holocaust, and finally as a feminine trace of these events.
Adopting (auto)biographical optics, the article analyzes the visual narrative emerging from “Obrazki domowe” as the self-portrait of a young girl who uses humor and irony to represent herself and her historical moment. She turns her home into a fortress sealed off from hunger, violence, and mass death.
Elżbieta Nadel, born June 1, 1920 in Lvov, died August 8, 1944 in Israel as Elisheva Landau. In Israel, she worked as an artist, illustrating books and periodicals. She studied graphic arts at the Fine Arts Institute in Lvov, where she met Kazimierz Moździerz (born 1918, Lvov; died: 1997, Bytom). Moździerz, who studied painting, helped Nadel and her mother flee Lvov for Warsaw. |
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| ISSN: | 2450-1611 2956-4158 |