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View from the Barracks's Roof Towards Freedom, Terezin

Fabian, Fritzcirca 1944

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History
New York, United States

A landscape vista with houses and hills in the distance. Signed in lower right in watercolor. Titled in pencil in margin in lower left. The title implies that the view was painted in the camp.

Details

  • Title: View from the Barracks's Roof Towards Freedom, Terezin
  • Creator: Fabian, Fritz
  • Creator Lifespan: 1877/1967
  • Date Created: circa 1944
  • Subject: Buildings in art
  • Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History
  • Physical Dimensions: w30.1 x h22.1 cm
  • Artist Biography: Fritz Fabian was born in 1877 in Berlin. Fabian was an architect, who was deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. After the war, he married Lilli Lehmann in Switzerland in 1947. In 1957, Lilly and Fritz regained German citizenship. He died in 1967 in Switzerland.
  • Type: Watercolor
  • 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: Watercolor and pencil on paper

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