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Witness & Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust

Jews 1985. Pier Marton

Witness and Legacy was designed as a commemorative exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.Conceived by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and curated by Stephen C. Feinstein, it was first exhibited in St. Paul in 1995.The exhibition traveled to a total of 17 museums and galleries through January 2002.

This exhibition contains work by artists who are survivors and refugees, second generation (children of Holocaust survivors) and empathizers.

 

Art by Survivors and Refugees

• Samuel Bak
• Judith Goldstein
• Kitty Klaidman
• Netty Vanderpol
• Gabrielle Rossmer
• Edith Altman
• Gerda Meyer Bernstein
• Alice Lok Cahana

Art by Second Generation

• Pier Marton
• Debbie Teicholz
• Mindy Weisel
• Art Spiegelman
• Joyce Lyon

Art by Empathizers

• Larry Rivers
• Mauricio Lasansky
• Seth Kramer
• Pearl Hirshfield
• Robert Barancik
• Marlene Miller
• Shirley Samberg
• Arnold Trachtman
• Jerome Witkin
• Jeffrey Wolin
• Susan Erony

Exhibition

• Witness and Legacy: Part One. Short film about the exhibition, narrated by Stephen Feinstein.
• Witness and Legacy: Part Two.
  
• General Tour of the Witness & Legacy Installation, Minnesota Museum of American Art, 1995.
• Views of the Final Installation of the Exhibition, Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington, October 2001 - January 12, 2002.
• University Museum, Albany, NY Site