The Last Tree in the Ghetto
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Print : paper : woodcut : ink : b&w ; Ht: 13 in. x W: 9 1/4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Original Art, Work on Paper
- Date
- [ca. 1954-1956]
- Creator
- Mrozewski. Stefan
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- Black ink on white paper. Outdoors. A large tree is at the centre of the scene, with people packed together sitting around it. One man is reading, another looks at his young daughter, who is standing in front of him. To the right, other people stand, facing the tree. Narrative: All 16 of the prints in this series depict life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Printmaker, book illustrator and painter, Stefan Mrozewski was born in Czéstochowa, Poland. Mrozewski's prints are in permament collections of several public art collections in Europe and North America. The artist was married to Irena Blizinska. An ardent patriot, he was a volunteer in the Polish Army in the war against the Soviet Union in 1920, as well as during the Second World War when he served in Armia Krajowa, the clandestine Polish Home Army.
- Accession No.
- 2000.69.06
- Name Access
- Hornstein, Michael
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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