Jerusalem; Oil on Canvas, 139×103 cm<\/p>\n
Esther Luria<\/span><\/p>\n Esther Luria was born in 1913 in Liepaja, Latvia. Between the years 1931-1934 she \u00a0studied stage design at the Brussels Institute\u00a0for\u00a0Decorative Art. Afterwards, she studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 1934 she immigrated to Palestine and designed the sets of Hateatron Haivri Theatre. During the Nazi regime, she visited her sister in Kaunas, and along with all of the Jews from the city she\u00a0was sent to a Ghetto \u2013 \u201cGhetto Kovna\u201d. At first, she\u00a0painted the ghetto\u2019s daily routine, though at some point she was separated from her sister and transferred to a concentration camp. Thanks to her role at the camp\u00a0\u2013 inscribing numbers on people with ink \u2013 she managed to continue painting. She mainly painted on white packing paper, given\u00a0to her by the camp\u2019s doctor.<\/p>\n When the war ended\u00a0in 1945 she arrived to Italy, where she met soldiers who served in the British army. One of them was painter Menachem Shemi. Due to their encounter, he organized an exhibition of her \u201ccamp drawings\u201d, as well as contributing to the release of the book \u201cThe Enslaved Jew\u201d that featured many of her works. In the same year she returned to Palestine.<\/p>\n In 1961, she was asked to testify in Eichmann\u2019s trial. However, during an interview for a local paper, she claimed: \u201cI am an Israeli painter and it\u2019s about time I stop being a ghetto painter\u201d. Even though she did not testify, her drawing served as testimony in\u00a0the trail. Today, her works from the concentration camp can be found in many collections: the Ghetto Fighter\u2019s House Museum collection, Yad Vashem Museum and in various private collections. She passed away in 1988, in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jerusalem; Oil on Canvas, 139×103 cm Esther Luria Esther Luria was born in 1913 in Liepaja, Latvia. Between the years 1931-1934 she \u00a0studied stage design at the Brussels Institute\u00a0for\u00a0Decorative Art. Afterwards, she studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 1934 she immigrated to Palestine and designed the sets of Hateatron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"view.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}