Alexander Dettmar Painting to Remember: The Destroyed German Synagogues
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Alexander Dettmar Painting to Remember: The Destroyed German Synagogues
By (Author) A. Bergmann
By (author) H. Dahlhaus
By (author) C. Kahn Strauss
By (author) B. Kauffmann
By (author) T. Ridder
By (author) I. Schorsch
By (author) H. Seemann
By (author) B. D. Soussan
By (author) V. Veltzke
Hirmer Verlag
Hirmer Verlag
21st June 2010
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
759.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
1540g
Description
On the evening of November 9, 1938 the synagogues in almost all of Germany's towns and cities went up in flames. The artist Alexander Dettmar has made it his task to save this lost cultural heritage from total oblivion by capturing the burnt-down buildings in his paintings.
Author Bio
As a painter Alexander Dettmar has already produced many major thematic cycles; he was awarded the Ernst Barlach prize in 1996.
