a life divided, painting by artist who escaped Nazis

I was interested, Vivien, but didn't post. Am posting now to bump the thread up for attention...

thanks Osso

I don't think he was on the whole a great great artist - the small paintings shown in the exhibition were very average but the large painting and its story had a huge resonance.

It really was huge and painted with an anti war passion

The way the museum displayed it and had panels with a background following his story and the rise of the fascists in Germany and the holocaust was brilliantly done.

School groups visited and I think will have gained a terrific insight into that time from it.

His daughter was unaware of the painting and the story until after his death and continues to try to track down the missing pieces - they had a black and white photo of the painting before it was cut up, so in the display they were able to recreate the whole, putting in the missing pieces in black and white.