Peter
Wilhelm Art Center in Budapest will honor Anne
Frank's 80th birthday with an original artwork
exhibition and various
activities. Above you see participating artists and the curator of the
exhibition.
Anne Frank became famous due to her diary,
written in Dutch, in which despite her young age, she describes in a
sensitive,
acute and mature way, what she, her family and their friends went
through in
their hiding place from the Nazis. Anne Frank is the Shoah's 'most
famous victim'
as well as 'the most famous child of the twentieth century', and her
face, with
the sad shy smile is one of the icons of twentieth century.
The photographs of Anne Frank are famous
documents worldwide representing the Shoah and were adopted by many
artists as a
source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas. There is
wide use of
Anne Frank's image in artworks of many artists worldwide. Every artist
refers to
her image according to his/her cultural perception and artistic style.
Dr. Batya Brutin
writes about this particular
painting:
"Werner Horvath uses the famous photograph of Anne Frank reading a book
as a symbol of the tight relationship between Anne and her diary. In
his painting Anne's image emerges from a colorful surrealistic
landscape while the book describes black and white bold, naked and
emaciated children's figures. As a result, Anne Frank becomes the
symbol for all the innocent children murdered in the Holocaust."
(In "Anne Frank in the artists eyes", Peter Wilhelm Art Project,
Budapest 2009, ISBN 978-963-06-8114-8).
For
the first time, in the exhibition Anne Frank
in the Artists Eyes, a large
collection of original artworks depicting Anne Frank will be shown. It
will expose
the wide variety of subjects concerning Anne Frank's image that
occupies the
artist's thoughts, ideas and emotions. Twenty nine artists from
Hungary,
Germany, Austria, Holland,
Sweden, UK, USA
and Israel will participate in this exhibition with various
artistic media and style. The curator of the exhibition is Dr. Batya
Brutin,
from Israel.
The
opening of the exhibition took place in the old Rumbach-Synagogue in
the
central of Budapest on October 6th at 6 PM and the
exhibition will continue until
October 22nd 2009 (open on workdays from 10 a.m.
to 5,30 p.m). Address of the exhibition: Budapest, VII., Rumbach
Sebestyen street 11-13. During that time Peter
Wilhelm Art Center will
run various cultural activities as part of remembering
Anne Frank.
From left to right: The old Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest, Peter
Wilhelm and Dr. Batya Brutin at the opening of the
exhibition "Anne Frank in the artists eyes", the artist Werner Horvath
and Dr. Batya Brutin in front of Horvath's Anne Frank portrait and the
inside of the Synagogue.
Visitors of the exhibition.
Peter Wilhelm, director of the Peter Wilhelm Art Center (middle),
Gabriel Hofmann (left) and the artist Werner Horvath (right) in front
of Anne
Frank paintings.
For further information, please contact Peter
Wilhelm Art Center via mail:
office@peterwilhelm-foundation.com