Arno Nadel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518188
• English
• overall: Height: 25.250 inches (64.135 cm) | Width: 19.250 inches (48.895 cm) pictorial area: Height: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Portrait of 23 year old Gerd Shindler created by his uncle, Arno Nadel, on February 21, 1936. Gerd took the drawing with him when he left Berlin, Germany, for Palestine that year. Arno Nadel was an authority on Jewish folk and religious music and was the music director for the synagogues of Berlin for over 30 years, as well as a poet, composer, and playwright. The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 would destroy the Jewish community in Berlin. In the early 1930s, Nadel and his wife, Beate, sent their two daughters to the United States. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom in Novem...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518189
• English
• overall: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Pastel portrait of a woman created by Arno Nadel in Berlin, Germany in the 1930s. It depicts a cloaked woman seated within bulrushes done in a deeply colored, abstract style. The drawing was owned by Nadel’s nephew, Gerd Shindler, who took it with him when he left Berlin for Palestine in 1936. Nadel was an authority on Jewish folk and religious music and was the music director for the synagogues of Berlin for over 30 years, as well as a poet, composer, and playwright. The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 would destroy the Jewish community in Berlin. In the early 1930s, Nadel a...