Bedrich fritta wikipedia english

There he worked as a technical draughtsman, graphic designer, and cartoonist, for clients including the exile edition of the Munich satirical weekly Simplicissimus. On December 4, , Fritta was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in the second "construction commando," made up of engineers, craftsmen, and physicians. He supervised the drawing studio in the Jewish self-administration's technical department.

Up to twenty imprisoned artists worked in the studio, producing construction plans and illustrated supplements for the reports that had to be sent to the SS commandant's office. These officially commissioned works underpinned the ghetto's public image as a smoothly functioning, self-governed model settlement—but the artists secretly used the studio materials to record the misery of everyday ghetto life.

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The SS discovered the unofficial drawings in summer Fritta died of exhaustion there in November Home: About the Exhibition Biography. Deutsch Contact Credits Sitemap. Ross Gallery. German Contact Credits.