As its final program in the year-long series “Art & Conflict: Ashkenaz and Beyond,” the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will present a program on a German Jewish artist.
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is remembered primarily as the creator of a series of 769 paintings titled “Life? or Theater?” that she created when she was hiding from the Nazis in France.
These paintings explored both the artist’s own life and the fact that eight members of her family, all but one of them women, committed suicide.
Historian Darcy Buerkle of Smith College will give a presentation titled “Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and the Archive of Suicide” on Thursday, May 8, 7:30 p.m., in the UWM Golda Meir Library’s fourth floor conference center.
This event with be the “Faye Sigman ‘Woman of Valor’ Lecture” for this academic year. Admission is free. For more information, contact the center, 414-229-6121 or cjsuwm@uwm.edu.
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