Art and museums of the Shoah
Paolo CoenUniversity of Calabriapaolocoen.blogspot.itgdmuniversita.blogspot.it
Theodor von Adorno
To write a poem after Auschwitz is an act of barbarism
Theodor von Adorno
Günther Grass
Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream.
Theodor von Adorno
Papers’s general outline
Art of the Shoah: Witnessing
Art of the Shoah: Reflection and Self Inspiration
Museology and the Shoah
Art of the Shoah: Witnessing
Corrado Cagli
Alexander Bogen
Alexander Bogen
To be creative in the situation of the Holocaust, this is also a protest Each man when he is standing face to face with cruel danger, with death, reacts in his way. The artist reacts with his means. This is his protest! This is my means! He reacts in an artistic way. This is his weapon. He must leave his mark as a mensch on mankind. This, it shows that the Germans could not break his spirit.
Alexander Bogen
Nathan Rapoport
Marek Suzin, architect – Nathan Rapoport, sculptor, Memorial of the
Ghetto Uprising, 1948, Warsaw
Nathan Rapoport, Exile (The Last March of Treblinka), 1948, Warsaw, Monument to the Ghetto Uprining
December 7, 1970: West Germany’s Prime Minister Willy Brandt kneeling in front of
Rapport’s monument. “Should Brandt knee?” asks Der Spiegel.
Primo Levi, Lodovico Belgioioso for BBPR,Pupino Samonà, Luigi Nono and Nelo Risi, Italian Memorial, 1980 Auschwitz I, Block
21
It's old wisdom, and so already had warned Heinrich Heine, both jew and German: who burns books ends by burning men as well, violence is a seed that will not be extinguished. Primo Levi
June 6, 2012 - Italian Football National Team visits
Auschwitz-Birkenau, ahead of Euro 2012
So everything was true…Gianluigi Buffon,
Italy’s goalkeeper, walking in Auschwitz II
Pupino Samonà, Italian Memorial, detail,
Auschwitz I, Block 21
Art of the Shoah: Reflection and Self Inspiration
Alberto Burri
Jean Fautrier
Antoni Tàpies
Richard Serra
Richard Serra, Walking is measuring, 2000, Oporto Serralves Museum of
Contemporary Art
Richard Serra, Splashed metal performances, 1966-1968
Richard Serra, Splah Pieces, 1968
Richard Serra, The Drowned and the Saved, 1992,
Kolumba Museum, Cologne
Richard Serra, Gravity, 1993, United States
Holocaust Museum and Memorial
Richard Serra, Gravity, Washington, USHMM
Richard Serra – Peter Eisenmann, Field of Stelae,
(Memorial of killed Jews of Europa), Berlin
Richard Serra, Stelae, New York Gagosian
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, once Federal Plaza, New York
Richard Serra – Peter Eisenmann, Field of Stelae,
(Memorial of killed Jews of Europa), Berlin
Stommeln Synagogue’s Art Project
Gerard Dornseifer, first curator of the art project in Stommeln’s
historical synagogue
Synagogue, Stommeln (Cologne)
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled, 1991, Stommeln,
Synagogue
Richard Serra, The Drowned and the Saved, 1992, first installation in the
synagogue of Stommeln
Daniel Buren, Multiplication, 2010, Stommeln, Synagogue
The exhibition Mirroring Evil
Maurizio Cattelan, Him, collection François Pinault
Maurizio Cattelan, Him, collection François Pinault
The Jewish Museum, New York, seat of Mirroring Evil
Norman Kleeblatt, curator of Mirroring Evil
Victims, perpetrators, bystanders Jonathan Littell
Victims, perpetrators, bystanders Nir Baram
Museology and the Shoah
Museums built on the sites of memory
Museums of single local Jewish communities or of the Jewish people assumed as a whole
Museums of the Shoah, or Holocaust Museums
Museums built on the sites of memory
Main Cathegory: Memorial
Main example: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Museums of local Jewish communities, of Jewish communities of a single nation,or of the Jewish people intended as a whole
Main cathegory: Etnology; Etnography
Main examples: Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt Jüdische Museum, Berlin Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv
Museums of the Shoah, or Holocaust MuseumsMain cathegory: History
Main examples: Yad Vashem, JerusalemUnited States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, Washington
Holocaust Museums in today’s world
Holocaust Museums’s Prototypes
1948 - Israel Katnelson Museum of the Holocaust, Kibbutz Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, or Ghetto Fighters House, between Akko e Naharya, Israel
1953 - Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
1968 - Holocaust Museum, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, 20 km south of Ashkelon, Israel
Holocaust Museums after 1989
1993 - Holocaust Museum (now Museum of Jewish Heritage), New York
1993 - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
1993 - United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, Washington1996 – Holocaust Museum, Houston
Latest Holocaust Museums
2000 – The Holocaust permanent exhibition, Imperial War Museum, London
2000 – Jüdisches Museum, Berlin [first and second accrochage]
2005 – Musem and Memorial of Killed Jews of Europe, Berlin
2009 – Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre, Skokie, Chicago
2010 – The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles
Holocaust Museums under construction
Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem
Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center, Dallas
Museum of the Shoah, Rome
Israel Katnelson Museum of the Holocaust, 1949, Kibbutz Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, between Akko e Naharya,
Israel
Yad Vashem (The Holocaust Martyrs’s and Heroes’s Memorial Remembrance Authorithy), 1953, Jerusalem
Holocaust Museum, 1968, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, 15 km south of Ashkelon, Israel
Moshe Safdie, The historical addition, Yad Vashem (The Holocaust Martyrs’s and Heroes’s Memorial Remembrance Authorithy), Jerusalem
dDaniel Liebeskind, Detail, Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Richard Serra, Gravity, 1993, USHMM
Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, The Holocaust Museum, 1993, New York
“To restore freedom”: the connection of the Holocaust Museum with Ellis Island’s memorial,
the Statue of Liberty and Nathan Rapoport’s Liberation in Ronald Reagan’s political
perspective.
James Ingo Freed, Main Façade, United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, 1993,
Washington DC
Yaffa Eliach, The Tower of Names, United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial, Washington D.C.
The Holocaust permanent exhibition, 2000,
London, Imperial War Museum
The Holocaust permanent exhibition, 2000, London,
Imperial War Museum
Richard Serra – Peter Eisenman, Denkmal und Museum für ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial and Museum of killed Jews of Europe), 2005, Berlin
Stanley Tigerman, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre, 2009,
Skokie, Chicago
Stanley Tigerman, Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Centre, 2009, Skokie, Chicago
Luca Zevi, Museo della Shoah, forthcoming, Rome
Luca Zevi, Museo della Shoah, Rome, forthcoming