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    Artist

  • Kocherthaler, Mina, 1921-1996

    • Title

  • Old walls by the sea

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 20.75" x 26.75" ; 52.71 x 68 cm

  • Date

    Between 1960 and 1969

  • Summary

    The picture is of three walls of a run-down, old building standing on the seashore. Each wall is marred: the first has two areas of exposed wood, the second has cracks from top to bottom, and the third has a hole with a view of the sky. The work is signed in the lower left corner by the artist. The juxtaposition of decrepit walls on a beautiful beach attempts to capture the displacement she felt while living in various environments throughout her life. A professional painter once stated, "It shows her life. The black mark representing Munich, the second is life in war-time London, England, and the third is life in New York!" This painting was exhibited at the Mexico Olympics in 1968.

  • Subject

    Surrealism

  • Medium

    Oil paintings; Paintings

  • Part Of

    Mina Kocherthaler collection, AR 11781

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Biographical/Historical Information

Mina Kocherthaler was born in Munich, Germany in 1921. She escaped Nazi Germany to London through Kindertransport, which was an effort to save Jewish children in Germany by way of parents sending their children to Great Britian between 1938 and 1940. She later immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. She was a student of Ralph Fabri and received various awards, including the Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's Katherine A. Lovell Memorial Award. Her works were exhibited in Mexico and the U.S., one of which was part of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1966/67. Mina Kocherthaler died in New York in 1996.

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Kocherthaler, Mina: Old walls by the sea, Leo Baeck Institute, 2005.101.