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    Artist

  • Behr, Henry, 1897-1981, artist

    • Title

  • Fort in Terezinè Tschechoslovakia

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 12" x 16" (31 cm. x 41 cm.)

  • Date

    1945

  • Notes

    Titled in lower left and signed and dated in lower right.

  • Summary

    A very detailed rendering of a brick building with two farmers and an ox cart in the foreground.

  • Subject

    Fortification

  • Place

    Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)

  • Medium

    Watercolors; Drawings

  • Part Of

    Heinrich Bähr Collection, AR 4700

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Biographical/Historical Information

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

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Citation

Behr, Henry: Fort in Terezinè Tschechoslovakia, Leo Baeck Institute, 81.620.