UTW 52

Erwin Schulhoff, composer

Art: 2004
Media: Ink, colored pencil & gouache on paper
Paper size at right: 18 3/4 H x 42.5 W; paper size at left: 16 5/8 H x 42.5 W
Framed, 28 (?) inches H x 63 inches W

The frame was a gift of the Hillel Center, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.

Erwin Schulhoff, a German speaking Czech, was born in 1894 in Prague. He was murdered at the Wülzburg concentration - death  camp, Bavaria, Germany concentration camp in Bavaria, 1942. The drawing was inspired by a photo (the photo accompanying an article) published in the NY Times winter 2004 with an attribution to Delta Music; I don't know how Delta Music acquired the a photo of Schulhoff or how and where the original photo was located.

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Some of the music notes in the right wing (viewers left) were drawn from a reproduction of the title page of the Composition for a Male Chorus by Pawel Haas, "Al S'fod," seen on p. 80 in the book Music in Terezin, 1941-45 (by Joza Karas; Beaufort Books, NY '85).

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He was murdered at the Wülzburg concentration - death  camp, Bavaria, Germany concentration camp in Bavaria, 1942. The drawing was inspired by a photo (the photo accompanying an article) published in the NY Times winter 2004 with an attribution to Delta Music; I don't know how Delta Music acquired the a photo of Schulhoff or how and where the original photo was located.

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Some of the music notes in the right wing (viewers left) were drawn from a reproduction of the title page of the Composition for a Male Chorus by Pawel Haas, "Al S'fod," seen on p. 80 in the book Music in Terezin, 1941-45 (by Joza Karas; Beaufort Books, NY '85).

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Other musical notes depicted are from Bach, Beethoven, and the Song of the Peabog Soldiers, a concentration camp song that was sung by prisoners in German camps. Haas, also a Czech Jew and a composer, was born in Brno in 1899 and was murdered at the Auschwitz death camp on Oct. 17, 1944.