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    Artist

  • Breuer, Leo, 1893-1975

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Dr. Francis L. Levy]

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : pencil on paper ; 11.75" x 8" (30 cm x 21 cm)

  • Date

    1941

  • Summary

    Dr. Levy is sitting on a crate-like block. His hair is rather long, his beard appears to be unkept.

    Inscribed across the bottom are: “Camp de Gurs”; the date “4.III.41“ [March 4, 1941]; and a dedication reading “Meinem lieben Barakenkameraden Dr. Levy zum Andenken” [In remembrance to my dear comrade in the shack, Dr. Levy]. Signed and dated by the artist in lower right.

  • Provenance

    The drawing was donated by Dr. Francis L. Levy as a gift to the Leo Baeck institute in New York.

  • Subject

    Prisoners; Gurs (Concentration camp)

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings

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Biographical/Historical Information

The artist Leo Breuer was born in Bonn in 1893. He escaped Nazi Germany in 1934 for The Hague and Brussels. In 1940, he was arrested and interned in Saint Cyprien and then in Gurs, where he was a member of the Catholic Relief Organization. After the war, he settled in Paris and then moved back to Bonn, where he died in 1975.

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Citation

Breuer, Leo: [Portrait of Dr. Francis L. Levy], Leo Baeck Institute, 87.152.