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Selected artworks

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A portrait with an extremely emaciated face of a dying man with his eyes going nowhere and his mouth open; one hand is placed on his chest.

"Portrait of colleague Zbigniew Jędrzejewski, died on the day of the drawing". Karol Konieczny

The painting shows a seaport with landing stages, barge and boat sailing out, with an Old Dutch town silhouette from the 17th or 18th century blurred in the haze of water and clouds. A female figure dressed in Dutch costume in the foreground.

"Harbour Motif with Dutchwoman in Traditional Costume" Henri Pieck

The drawings shows two girls faces, The made up and curled women wear magnificent hats. The drawing was made on a work capture sheet.

Untitled (Two Faces) Maria Brzecka-Kosk

A photo of a wooden sculpture of a clown, whose gestures and facial expression make an indifferent impression.

"Clown figure" Bruno Apitz

The heavily damaged painting shows some white thatched houses among trees in a green landscape. In the background high, dark mountain ranges, snow-covered at the tops.

"Carpathian Landscape" Józef Szajna

The drawing shows in rough strokes people who apparently transport building materials - perhaps sand in buckets. In the background wooden barracks can be seen.

"View of the Jewish women's camp in Elben" Ilse Häfner-Mode

The picture shows a detailed pencil drawing capturing the hustle and bustle of the concentration camp after the liberation. The motif includes prisoners leaving the camp with luggage, as well as invalids lying on the ground, and people lying on the side of the road and appearing dead. Two large, bright tents are erected in front of the barracks in the background.

Design for a Diorama of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Paul Goyard

The etching shows people huddled at the dining tables of a prisoner barracks, in hunched postures and many with their heads resting on the empty tables or in their hands. In the background some are standing and looking out of the window.

"Pendant l'alerte II" (During Air Alert II) José Fosty

It is an ink drawing. In the background, symmetrical structures can be seen, which are supposed to represent the cane beds in the small camp. In front of it is an almost indefinable pile of strokes and dots. On closer inspection, it becomes clear that these are extremities protruding from the pile.

"Block 51. Buchenwald. Small camp" Nachum Bandel

The woodcut shows the cramming of the prisoners on the cots, the narrowness and crowdedness in the tunnels. The people are drawn as silhouettes, without individual features; often only white dots mark their heads, the faces are not recognizable. From this quasi amorphous mass, individual situations are singled out by way of example: someone is defecating over a barrel, a dead man is lying in front of it, a man is scraping out a food bucket, another is eating on the floor.

"K.L. Dora: Living in the Adit" Dominik Černý

A prisoner at the side of the dead in the yard of the crematorium. In the upper left of the picture, the door of an oven can be seen. With an outstretched hand, he invites visitors to face the evidence of the crimes - to step closer to the emaciated bodies. The citizens, well-fed and well-dressed, are drawn with pointed pens. Horror is written on their faces.

"We Didn't Know" Herbert Sandberg

The picture shows an etching, where from a large spot of charcoal, the structure of the prisoner camp Buchenwald was etched. The light beams of the searchlights at the camp gate are abundantly clear.

KZ (Kacet) Buchenwald, Leonid Ivanovič Caricynski

A colored drawing of armed prisoners charging forward ready to fight.

„le 11 avril 1945“ Boris Taslitzky

Eine Bronzeskultur eines abgemagerten Häftlings, der sich eine zerschlissene Decke umgehängt hat. Seine Brust ist hohl.

„Muselmann“ Walter Spitzer

The historical photo in the center of this collage shows survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp a few days after the liberation on April 11, 1945. Arranged around it are photos of a pin-up girl in changing poses.

NO!art: Saturation Paintings (Buchenwald) Boris Lurie

Drawing of the group of figures by Fritz Cremer. In the foreground one kneels with raised arms. Behind him, two others stretch a hand in the air. Others behind carry a flag and weapons.

Fritz Cremer - Study for the 3rd Draft of the Buchenwald Figural Group Fritz Cremer

The bronze relief shows a prisoner rising among emaciated corpses.

Design for a tomb relief for the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial site Theo Balden

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