It's my whole life : Charlotte Salomon : an artist in hiding during World War II / Susan Wider.
"A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life's everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 1940 and 1942 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in the south of France, and which has been called a painted parallel to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and an early graphic novel. In 1943, she entrusted her collection of paintings to a friend. In October of that year, she was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were gassed to death upon arrival. It's My Whole Life covers Charlotte's remarkable life from her childhood and art school days to her time as a refugee in Nazi-occupied France, where she created the largest single work of art created by a Jew during the Holocaust. Compellingly written and accompanied by vivid color photographs of Salomon's artwork, Susan Wider has crafted an illuminating portrait of an enigmatic and evanescent young artist"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324015451
- ISBN: 1324015454
- Physical Description: 153 pages : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-148) and index. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 13-18 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Exeter Community Library | YA SAL (Text) | 33249025542964 | Teen Biography | Available | - |
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | YA 921 SALOMON (Text) | 91083200 | GFWM Robinson Room | Available | - |
Somerset County Library | 759.3 WID (Text) | 35907001762819 | SOCM Non Fiction | Available | - |