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A survivor of the Holocaust and three different Nazi concentration camps, Max Mannheimer (1920–2016) spent his life speaking out against the atrocities of the Third Reich. One of the most prominent witnesses of the Holocaust, he won numerous awards for raising public awareness, including the German Cross of Merit and the French Legion of Honor. Beginning in the 1950s, he also worked through the painful memories of what he endured through his art, painting and drawing under the name Ben Jakov, “Son of Jakob,” in memory of his father, who was killed in a concentration camp. Although he produced more than 1,000 paintings and drawings, he never exhibited his work, and this aspect of his life remains little-known. Max Mannheimer: The Marriage of Colours offers the first look at Mannheimer's incredibly moving body of work. The dynamic, abstract paintings and drawings bear witness to the atroci
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Gottfried Knapp is a critic of art and architecture at the Suddeutsche Zeitung and a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schonen Kunste. He is author and editor of several books, including Christina von Bitter: The Skin of Things and Franz Mayer of Munich, both also published by Hirmer Publishers.
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