Sketchbook with hand-colored drawings was owned by members of Benno M. Levisson’s family
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 5.512 inches (14 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm) | Depth: 1.378 inches (3.5 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
Rectangular sketchbook full of pencil and color pencil sketches on tan pages bound within well-worn, red, cloth covered, cardboard covers. The images depict a series of related images and text, as though relating a story, about a dog and several human and anthropomorphized animal characters. The Dutch text is recorded in black ink, and each of the 42 pages in the sequence is numbered. The images appear on only one side of each page. Six loose pages have been tucked into the front of the notebook. These appear to come from the same original source as the story pages, they have the same binding holes from a previous binding as the rest of the pages, but are not part of the story.
Subjects
- Curaçao
- Netherlands
Genre
- Object
- Art