Szalit-Marcus, Rachel, 1894-1942
Dates
- Usage: 1894 - 1942
Biography
Rachel Szalit-Marcus was a painter and book illustrator. She spent her childhood in Lodz and in 1911 went to study at the Munich Fines Arts Academy. There she met and married Julius Szalit, a successful Jewish actor, and they were together until he committed suicide 1919. In 1916, they moved to Berlin, where Rachel exhibited with the artists of the Secession group and became a member of the November group, young avant-garde artists who joined forces after the November Revolution of 1918. When the Nazis assumed power in 1933, Rachel Szalit-Marcus fled to Paris, a haven for refugee artists. The “Paris School” artists were considered degenerate and banned when France fell to Germany in 1940. In 1942, she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where she was murdered. She painted portraits, flowers, and still-lifes but little remains of her work after her Paris studio was ransacked by Nazis. Her best-known works consist of lithographic illustrations to books by Mendele Mokher Seforim, Shalom Aleichem, Israel Zangwill, Heinrich Heine, and Martin Buber.
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"Die Strasse (?)" or "The Street (?)", 1920
Black and white lithograph of "Die Strasse" or "The Street" with a thrid word that is illegible. It is part of a series of works artist Rachel Szalit-Marcus did for Sholom Aleichem's "Menshelakh un Stsenes" published in 1922. The print shows four people in the street with two peaked straw roofs in the background. The figures of two women, and man and a boy all seem angry and bit grotesque. Anger may be directed towards the boy.
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