"The first part of the book describes the life of Klara Gereb, a graphic artist in Subotica, Yugoslavia, who perished in Auschwitz. She was raised in a Jewish family in Szabadka, in pre-World War I Hungary, and attended the National Hungarian Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Budapest. Following WWI her home town became Subotica, Yugoslavia. After study tours in Austria, Italy, and France she married Louis Fenyves, manager of a printing plant and newspaper. They had two children. In 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz, where she perished. During the deportation her former cook saved a binder of her graphic work, which she returned to the artist's children. The second part of the book is a catalog of a representative subset of Klara Gereb's surviving work, in five sections: illustrations, etchings, and lithographs; student work; portraits; nature studies; and cityscapes of Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Venice, and Florence".
Details
Subjects
Local Number
2021-2562F
Author
Fenves, Steven J.
Publication Place
Bloomington, Indiana
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Year
2014
Pages
114 pages
Collation
illustrations (colored), plan, portraits
Language
English
ISBN
9781491867167
Digital Object Note
This book was donated to the Yad Vashem Library in memory of Yehuda Schwarzbaum (1930-2011), his parents Akiva and Chaya and his younger brothers Menachem Mendl and Avraham who were murdered in the Shoah