Sketchbook with hand-colored drawings was owned by members of Benno M. Levisson’s family
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 5.610 inches (14.249 cm) | Width: 9.843 inches (25.001 cm) | Depth: 1.476 inches (3.749 cm)
Archival History
The sketchbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Heske Levie Zelermyer, daughter of Benno M. Levisson.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Heske Zelermyer
Scope and Content
The sketchbook with hand-colored drawings was owned by members of Benno M. Levisson’s family and relates to their experiences while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao between 1939 and 1945. Small sketches in a style similar to that used in the sketchbook appear in many of the letters between family members also found in the collection.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Thick, rectangular sketchbook full of pencil and color pencil drawings on tan pages bound within well-worn, marbled, red, paper-covered, cardboard covers. The images in the front half of the book depict a series of related images and text, as though relating a story, about a dog and several human and anthropomorphized animal characters. These pages are numbered with Roman numerals, and there appear to be at least 37 of them. The image in the back half of the book depict a number of animals and many of these have come loose and are out of order. These pages also appear numbered, and there are at least 88 of them. The Dutch text for both sets of images is recorded in black ink, and images appear on only one side of each page.
Subjects
- Netherlands
- Curaçao
Genre
- Object
- Art