By staff
Title: Holocaust-Related Art, 1942-1989
Predominant Dates:1933 --1945
ID: RG-14/RG-14
Primary Creator: Pieck, Henri
Other Creators: A. Gedis, Ben-Itzhac, Liana, Haas, Leo (1901-1983), Leopold Lewicki (1906-1973), Leskly, Eli (1911-2004), Margaret Singer (1921-2019), Müller, Moritz (1887-1944), Zielezinski, George
Extent: 0.0
Arrangement:
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is comprised of six collections: 1. Lev Haas collection; 2. Henri Pieck collection; 3. George Zielezinski collection; 4. Eli Leskly collection; 5. Moritz Mueller collection; 6. Collection of Polish artwork on Nazi camp life.
Subjects: day-to-day life in ghettos, day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps, Haas, Leo, Holocaust-related art, Lichtblau, Erich, Mueller, Moritz, Pieck, Henri, Postwar recollections of the Holocaust, Zielezinski, George
This record group is comprised of various artworks including paintings, sculpture, metal-forms, and combined compositions. The works in this record group reflect the Holocaust through the artists’ lenses. A number of artworks commemorate the Holocaust in general, while some are dedicated to specific Holocaust-related events and landmarks.
Materials within this record group include lithographs, original sketches in pen on paper, placards, postwar prints, framed artworks of the modern period. Some of the artwork is digitized.
day-to-day life in ghettos
day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps
Haas, Leo
Holocaust-related art
Lichtblau, Erich
Mueller, Moritz
Pieck, Henri
Postwar recollections of the Holocaust
Zielezinski, George
Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Access Restrictions: No restrictions
Use Restrictions:
Copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are required
Digital copies might be available upon request
Preferred Citation: RG-14, Holocaust-Related Art. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.
Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.
Born January 11, 1887 in Liptovký Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia; died October 1944 in Auschwitz, Poland. Müller was born the youngest of four children. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Prague, where Müller grew up. He started taking private classes in drawing during his childhood and, showing a great talent later went on to the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. While he did not paint for a living, he was constantly in contact with the art world. He opened in Prague a private school for drawing, enrolled in the Mánes Artists Association, and after World War I established an auction hall for arts in one of Prague’s liveliest cultural and social centers. Müller is recorded as being popular and well liked among both Czech and German art collectors as well as the among the artists themselves. After the Nazi occupation, his auction hall was robbed and closed, and Müller worked for the Prague Jewish Community appraising the art objects from the confiscated Jewish properties.
On July 8, 1943, Müller was deported as “passenger” 424 on Transport Dh to Theresienstadt, where he spent the last fourteen months of his life.
Despite his background as a professional artist, he was not occupied in the Ghetto art workshops or in the Technical Department with many of the other artists; rather, he worked as an orderly in the Urological ward of Dr. Kurt Weiner in the Engineers barracks.
Many of Müller’s minimum of five hundred works were portraits of the ill, crippled and dying-- some beauteous, some witty, some shocking. During his first few months at Theresienstadt, Müller drew at least one picture a day, often more. As his internment continued, however, he drew less, each picture taking more time. He dated every picture he made.
On October 1, 1944, as “passenger” 535 on Transport Em, a month and a half after his he completed his last picture dated August 16, 1944, Müller was deported to Auschwitz, where he was apparently gassed to death on October 3, 1944, the day the transport arrived.