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    Artist

  • Tritsch, Paula

    • Title

  • Flora in swamp

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 20" x 16" ; 50.5 x 41 cm

  • Place of Publication

    2008

  • Notes

    Signed and dated on bottom right and back.

  • Summary

    Depiction of a swamp scene with white flowers blooming from a branch in the foreground. Bald cypress trees and other flora are in the background and are reflected in the water.

  • Subject

    Swamps in art; Nature in art; Plants

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Paula Tritsch, born in 1911 in Germany, survived the Holocaust by hiding in France, though her mother and brother were both killed. She was featured in the documentary "REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home," along with other Eastern European immigrants who survived the Holocaust and reside in Chicago's Selfhelp Home.

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Citation

Tritsch, Paula: Flora in swamp, Leo Baeck Institute, 2016.05.