Description: Pencil signed Paper watermark next to signature Partly bent see photo AP Irene translated from old Greek means Peace itself Awret née Spicker was born on January 30, 1921, in Berlin, Germany.[1][2] She was the youngest of three children. In 1937, as a result of the Nuremberg Laws, Irene left high school and began studying drawing and painting. Around 1939 she and a sister fled to Belgium, where she stayed for several years. She continued her studies and eventually was able to find work restoring wooden sculptures.[3] In 1943 Awret was detained by the Gestapo in occupied Belgium and subsequently sent to the Mechelen transit camp. There she worked in the camp art workshop where she produced signs and armbands. She was also required to paint portraits of Nazi officers. In the camp she met Azriel Awret (1910-2011[4][5]), fellow artist and prisoner. The two married in late 1944 after the liberation of Mechelen.[6] The couple and their children emigrated to Safed, Israel in 1949. There they founded an art colony.[7] In the 1970s the couple moved to the United States. In 2004 Awret's memoir They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich (ISBN 0299188302) was published by the University of Wisconsin Press.[6] Awret died in Falls Church, Virginia on June 6, 2014.[5]
Price: 150 USD
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Artist: Irene Awret
Signed By: Itene Awret
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Item Length: 27 in
Framing: Unframed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: United States Germany
Subject: Egypt, Ladies, Peace, Women
Type: graphic
Year of Production: 1977
Theme: Conflicts & Wars, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Events & Festivals, History, Judaica, People, Politics, Social History, israel, Egypt, Women
Style: Modernism
Features: Limited Edition, Signed by artist
Production Technique: Lithography
Country/Region of Manufacture: Egypt
Item Width: 20 in
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
