Charlotte Salomon belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Charlotte Salomon as German-Jewish artist and Holocaust victim (1917–1943).
Charlotte Salomon was born at Berlin in 1917. Her recorded nationality is German Reich. She trained at Berlin University of the Arts.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
She worked as artist, painter and author.
Her recorded movement is expressionism.
Her best-known work is Life? Or Theatre?. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in German Reich shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Charlotte Salomon died in 1943, aged 26. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Life? Or Theatre?
- Movement: Expressionism
