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    Artist

  • Behr, Henry, 1897-1981

    • Title

  • Courtyard building in Theresienstadt [Kranken Stube -L306]

    • Other Title(s)

  • Hofgebäude in Theresienstadt

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : Ink and watercolor wash on paper mounted on illustration board ; 9.2" x 10.8" (23.3 cm x 27.5 cm)

  • Date

    1944

  • Notes

    Signed and dated lower right.

  • Summary

    A cluster of buildings, one of them with sign to the "Sickroom", and another has a sign to the passageway leading to L306. Three people are walking through the scene. Inscription along bottom: "IN DER KRANKEN-STUBE, WELCHE IN DER WIRKLICHKEIT EINE STERBE-STUBE WAR, HATTE MEINE FRAU NACHDIENST." Caption on back: "Wer in die Krankenstube hinein kam, kam nicht mehr lebend heraus. Durch den Durchgang in der Mitte kam man zur Hamburger Kaserne, wo ich im Office bei einem Tscheche gearbeitet habe."

  • Subject

    Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

  • Medium

    Watercolors; Drawings

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

According to captions provided by the artist, his wife worked in the infirmary in Theresienstadt, though whoever entered the infirmary did not come out alive. The passageway depicted in the drawing led to the Hamburg barracks, where the artist worked in an office.

Henry Behr (originally Baehr) lived from 1897 to 1981, and immigrated to US c. 1946. Behr and his wife, whose home was in Cologne, were held at Theresienstadt three and half years. He had been a commercial artist. He made a group of drawings in pencil, which he later finished in the present media. There are comments on the life in the camp on the backs of the mounts. Additional material in the archives.

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Behr, Henry: Courtyard building in Theresienstadt [Kranken Stube -L306], Leo Baeck Institute, 79.272.