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Erna Rosenstein was a Polish painter and Holocaust survivor. She was born on May 17, 1913, in Lviv, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). [1] [2] She was associated with the surrealist movement both as a visual artist and a writer.
17 mag 2024 · Erna Rosenstein è stata un’artista polacca di origini ebree, conosciuta per il suo contributo significativo al surrealismo e all’arte postbellica. È stata autrice di dipinti, assemblaggi, disegni, oggetti e libri d’artista.
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21 apr 2021 · The Art Institute of Chicago recently acquired a painting by Erna Rosenstein. The shape that immediately stands out is that of a knife, its shiny metal and brown handle sharply contrasting against a shimmering backdrop of greens, aquamarine, and dark reds.
- Communism
- Surrealism
- Trauma
- Post-War Reality
- Epilogue
She set up a communist group in her school in Krakow, Poland, when her family moved there in 1918. Despite the financial troubles, her preoccupied parents decided to send her away to study law in Vienna, hoping she would forget the communist ideas. Of course, she didn’t, all the more, she joined the communist international club, got in charge of pr...
She returned to Krakow in 1938 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts and she made a trip to Paris where she saw the popular Surrealist exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Paul Éluard. Who knows how her career would have developed after her return from France if she hadn’t been arrested for participating in the 1st of May demons...
And then the real tragedy began: her family was shut off in the ghetto. First, it wasn’t too bad, they quickly organized false papers in case they had to flee and she even managed to run an art cooperative with her mother. When the times got rougher, the whole family escaped to Warsaw. But then, they were captured, and Rosenstein’s parents were mur...
Although the war was over, Rosenstein had to change her name and identity numerous times to stay safe. She worked as a waitress or a seamstress, she moved towns and countries. Confronted with the socialist reality of post-war Poland, she changed her attitude towards Communism, especially that initially she was not even allowed to exhibit. Her fanta...
But why did I write that she was a Surrealist in a country where Surrealism didn’t exist? Well, Poland never really got a chance to experience the Surrealist spirit. The Surrealist Manifesto was published in 1924 when Polish art was dominated by the New Objectivity movement and Expressionism. Then, the aforementioned exhibition from 1938 could have...
Erna Rosenstein was an author of paintings, assemblages, drawings, objects, and artist books. She published seven volumes of poetry, among others Ślad (Trace) in 1972 and Spoza granic mowy (From Beyond the Edges of Speech) in 1976. She died on November 10, 2004 in Warsaw.
Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) spent her youth in Krakow and Vienna. In the mid-1930s, she became involved with the avant-garde Krakow Group. She survived the Holocaust and, following the war, joined the Communist Party of Poland.
