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During the Second World War, Topolski, already in England, was appointed an official war artist for the Polish government in exile, and then for the British government. Picture Post magazine sent him to Russia, and he also travelled to Egypt, Palestine and India. In April 1945 Topolski accompanied the Polish II Corps to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, arriving two weeks after its liberation, and he subsequently worked as an official artist at the Nuremberg Trials. His drawings of the camp featured in Ben Uri’s 1947 exhibition, 'Subjects of Jewish Interest'. Topolski’s Chronicles – published between 1953 and 1982, containing over 2,300 drawings and from which this image has been cut out – were inspired by eighteenth-century broadsheets, combined with on-the-spot sketches.
Title
Camp Guards and Inmates after Liberation
Date
1945
Medium
print on butcher's paper
Measurements
H 14.3 x W 19.2 cm
Accession number
2018-28
Acquisition method
presented by Dr David Y. Clark, 2018
Work type
Signature/marks description
Signed (lower left) 'Feliks Topolski April 1945'
Inscription description
titled (lower left): 'Concentration Camp Guards and Inmates near Papenburg'
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
108a Boundary Road, St John's Wood, London, Greater London NW8 0RH England
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