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MARGIT KORETZOVA Art, part of "I Never Saw Another Butt
MARGIT KORETZOVA Art, part of "I Never Saw Another Butt
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Exhibit Tag Details: MARGIT KORETZOVA Born April 8, 19330 Deported to Terezin Ghetto January 17, 1942 Deported to Auschwitz October 4, 1944 Water color on toned paper, 28.5X205 cm, signed at the top right corner: Margit Koretzova

In 1983, 45 facsimiles of children's drawings from Terezin were displayed at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum in Washington D.C., as a companion exhibit to the œThe Precious Legacy Exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum.

The exhibit was curated after the original collection in the State Jewish Museum of Prague. Mark Talisman brought forth the collaboration and organized curators to travel with him from the US to Prague to select images. Facsimiles of the originals were created and The œI Never Saw Another Butterfly collection was curated and displayed at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum and throughout Museums across the US. The collection represented more than 15,000 Jewish children whom were deported to Terezin and fewer than 100 survived.

The two exhibits, ''The Precious Legacy'' and The "I Never Saw Another Butterfly", were both organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in cooperation with Project Judaica, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Socialist Republic, the State Jewish Museum of Prague, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslavak Socialist Republic, and the National Committee of the Capital of Prague.

After the DC showing at B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum, the exhibits continued to travel to Miami Beach, New York City, San Diego, New Orleans, Detroit, Hartford, Canada, and other locations.

Mark Talisman was dedicated to bearing witness to the enduring power of humanistic learning, which bridges the generations, giving meaning to today and hope for tomorrow.

This incredible collection has not been viewed for decades and ready to inspire future generations. Prime Auction Solutions is honored to present The œI Never Saw Another Butterfly collection at Auction. The collection is being sold as individual lots.

Additional Historical Information:

From the book, œI never saw another butterfly Schocken Books
Children's Drawings and Poems from Teresin Concentration Camp a total of 15,000 children under the age of is passed through the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp between the years 1942 and 1944. Here in this combination of word and image, we see reflected not only the daily misery of these uprooted children, but a degree of courage and optimism that is their triumph. Because Terezin served as a kind of way station to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and other extermination centers, it was meant to be a model camp which foreigners could be shown and it was actually called a ghetto. Yet every one of its inhabitants was condemned in advance to die. When the children were herded with their parents into the so-called ghetto, they began to look around the strange world in which they were to live. They saw everything that the grown-ups did: the endless queues, the funeral carts and the human beings
harnessed to pull them, and the executions. But they saw other things too: the green meadows and bluish hills beyond the village gates, the animals, the birds, the butterflies. All this they secretly drew and painted; all this they described in their poems. The drawings and poems are all that is left of these children. Of those who signed their names to their work, it has been possible to find out a few facts: the year and place of their birth, the number
of their transport to Terezin and to Oswiecim, and then the year of their death. For most of them, it was 1944, the next to last year of World War II. The documents collected in this publication have been chosen from the archives of the State Jewish Museum in Prague. These drawings and poems speak to us; these are the voices which have been preserved, the voices of reminder, of truth, of hope.

œFrom indications on the drawings themselves and a comparison of the children's biographical material, it has been established that the earliest drawing dates from 1943, although it is known that the children were drawing pictures as soon as they came to Terezín. Children were consciously guided to drawing, as is indicated by the notes of their instructors who taught in the girls' and boys' dormitories. The teaching program was carefully planned and classes were divided into several levels. They began with the required fundamentals of drawing (wavy lines, circles) and later the children drew pictures of everyday objects which they saw around them at Terezin such as jelly jars filled with meadow flowers and finally, complicated still lifes, drawn from nature. Because the instructors were not trained teachers and permitted the children to draw whatever they wanted to, even to copy from reproductions of famous masterpieces which happened to be at hand (Cranach, Titian, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse), scores of accurate copies were preserved as well as drawings which were only indirectly inspired by modern art. We find many drawings which are reminiscent of modern Czech painters such as Václav Spála and Emil Filla, whose works were certainly familiar to some of the children. The great majority of the drawings date from the first half of 1944. Fewer are found from the autumn of 1944, when the steady shipment of Terezin prisoners eastward interrupted the school program and when the majority of the children, together with their drawing teacher, F. Brandejsová, left Terezin.

Out of the whole collection of drawings, it is possible to distinguish the work of boy and girls. They differ not only in other interests, but also in their approach to assigned or individually chosen themes. Girls were more interested in nature which they remembered; they paid more attention to flowers, to butterflies: they drew ballerinas, pretty little cottages with flower gardens and so on.

Boys were much more concrete. They were interested in the details of the hilly landscape of the Czech Central Mountains and the Ohte River, which flows among these once-volcanic hills and which they decked with steamboats, warships etc. They busied themselves illustrating detective stories and we find an entire cycle of drawing of battles, revelries and other adventures. Just as concretely did they draw pictures of everyday life at Terezin and of its inhabitants. They made pictures of SS-men, ghetto guards, of carts drawn by human beings, of burials or executions. These drawings of course were done outside of the school program, since those made as part of the regular instruction can be identified by theme. All the drawings which have been preserved, whether their theme was suggested by the teacher or chosen freely by the children themselves, are individual creations. The children were not encumbered by formal school patterns and that is why we find such great appeal in these children's artistic expressions.

The 45 traveling Children™s Art collection are presented as individual lots in the Auction. Bid per piece.

Provenance: Private Collection of Mark E. Talisman

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