Portfolio
Creator(s)
- Edition Kormendy (Distributor)
- Gyorgy Sandor Gal (Editor)
- Ernest Barta (Artist)
Archival History
The portfolio of prints was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Sheldon Kaplan on behalf of his wife Hannah Kaplan.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sheldon Kaplan
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Limited edition portfolio, 117/300, of 16 prints by Ernest (Emo) Barta with allegorical images of Holocaust related subjects. Each print is numbered 117/300 and signed by the artist.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
16 plates [plates 13.375 in. x 9.5 in. ; 34 c. x 25 cm.) ; 35 cm. Table of contents: 1. Danse Macabre. 2. Way into Nothingness 3. Beyond the walls there is life. 4. The breath of destruction escorted them... 5. The doors of the carriage have already been scaled by him : the Death. 6. The superflous people. 7. And they soiled with irons the industrious hands of men. 8. Sighs which fly once again home. 9. Pyre-death in the Hospital of Dorosie. 10. Gas. 11. Auschwitz. 12. On New Year's Eve of 1944, death holds feast in the city of Budapest.
People
- Barta, Emo, 1878-1956.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials