oha 2016

Hannukah lamp for synagogue, mid-19th C., Bohemia

Art: 2016
Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil
Drawing paper: 21 ¼ inches H x 17. Framed, 36 in H x 28 W

This is the 2nd drawing (by Segan) inspired by a black & white photo of a mid-19th C. Hanukah lamp for a synagogue seen in the 1983 book Precious Legacy - Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections edited by David Altshuler, pub. by Summit Books & The Smithsonian's Traveling Exhibition Services). There were 140,000 Judaic items in the warehouses in Prague at the end of WWII; that the Nazis had stolen from the Jews of Czechoslovakia whom the Austrian and German Nazis murdered. 

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The earlier drawing, ca. 2001 - 2002, is in the collection of Abby Gayle Layton, Pacific NW, USA. 

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According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, approximately 263,000 Czech Jews were murdered by the German & Austrian Nazis during WWII.