Charlotte Salomon: Biography, Facts and Career
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Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater?: A Song-play), the largest known artwork made by a Jewish person who died in the Holocaust, consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazis. In October 1943 Salomon, 5 months pregnant at that time, was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered by the Nazis soon after her arrival. In 2015, a 35-page confession by Salomon to the fatal poisoning of her grandfather, kept secret for decades, was released by a Parisian publisher.
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- Full name: Charlotte Salomon
- Born: 1917-04-16
- Nationality: German Reich
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q213735
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Charlotte Salomon (16 April 1917 – 10 October 1943) was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin.
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Charlotte Salomon was born on 1917-04-16.
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