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Junk Furniture, Terezin
Norbert Troller1943
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History
New York, United States
Courtyard filled with furniture. Caption in margin along bottom reads: "1943, came trainloads of the oldest junk furniture of former Jewish apartments, nobody was interested in it in Praha. Chests without doors or drawers, chairs with 2 or 3 feet, tables without legs etc. We used and repaired all." Dated upper right. Initialed lower right. Troller's caption: Disintegrating furniture taken from abandoned Jewish apartments in Prague and dumped in a courtyard of one of the barracks.
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- Title: Junk Furniture, Terezin
- Creator: Troller, Norbert
- Creator Lifespan: 1900/1981
- Date Created: 1943
- Subject: Concentration camps in art
- Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
- Physical Dimensions: w38.7 x h28 cm
- Artist Biography: Born in Bruenn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czechoslovakia) in 1900, Norbert Troller served as a soldier in World War I, spending time as a prisoner-of-war in Italy. After the war he studied architecture in Brno and Vienna and worked as an architect in Brno until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, where he worked as an architect for the Jewish self-adminstration of the camp, and produced works of art as well. In 1944 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo, and was sent to Auschwitz later that year. After liberation, he lived briefly in Cracow, and then reopened his architectural business in Prague and Brno. He emigrated to the United States in 1948 and worked for the National Jewish Welfare Board in New York designing Jewish community centers, before opening his own practice. He died in 1984.
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: This material may be used for personal, research, and educational purposes only. Any other use without prior authorization is prohibited. Please contact LBI librarians at lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org for further information.
- External Link: LBI Art Collection, Center for Jewish History
- Medium: Brown pencil on wove paper mounted on another sheet of paper
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