European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Photos of the jazz artist at work and play by de Reavis staff writer Ben Webster relaxes Between sets in this photo by Herman Leonard at the Frankfurt exhibit. The photo gallery Fot Grafie forum Frankfurt in a Frankfurt Germany is photos by american Herman Leonard and Frenchman Guy be through sunday. Leonard s photos were shot in the 1950s and stashed under his bed in a Box. They were dug out after the moderate Success of such movies As round Midnight about and with Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon and Bird about the legendary Charlie Parker made by jazz enthusiast Clint Eastwood. A a Leonard ran his own portrait studio business in new York City. But his great love was jazz and he spent hours in the Smoky dumpy clubs on 52nd Street setting up naturally lit shots of his music idols. A some of those shots can be seen at the Frankfurt show. Some of the subjects were famous at the time others were in route to Fame. They include Charlie Parker Miles Davis Duke Ellington thelonious Monk Louis Armstrong count Basie dizzy Gillespie Kenny Clark , Stan Getz Bud Powell Dexter Gordon Ella Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughn Billie Holiday and others. A be que rec s photos Are partly a . Leonard s work. I be shows Many of the same artists at later dates., most of be que rec s work was shot in France l in. Captured the musicians while on european Tours but unlike Leonard his Are snapshots not the artistic work of a portraitist. A be que rec followed the musicians into the dressing rooms hotel rooms buses airports and train stations. He said he photographed not stars but people who had devotee their lives to azz music a the music that he loves. A the gallery is Selling a brochure of be que rec photos for 5 Marks about $.1. The Leonard Book costs 67 a Marks. A v a the gallery is in the Leinwand Haus on Weck Markt beside the Frankfurt Cathedral. It i open 11 . To 6 . Thursday and Friday and i i . To 5 . On -.weekends. Entrain e is 4 Marks Lor adults 2 Marks Lor students. A a. Images of pain from a concentration campy de Reavis staff writer the exhibition from bauhaus to Terezin showing until july 28 at the jewish museum in Frankfurt Germany features works by artist Friedl Dicker Brandeis and children from the concentration . Terezin. The exhibit has not Only artistic but also historic value in their work the children a expressed their bitter daily experience of hunger illness and death in the concentration Camp. The work gives a glimpse of the pain they endured and the Hope they Clung to. Starting in 1919, the bauhaus located in Weimar Germany was the German Center for artistic architectural technical and sociological matters a a kind of Early brain Trust. Bauhaus architecture and Art is easily recognizable for its Clear unadorned cubic lines traits very visible in much of the children s work. Dicker Brandeis was born in Vienna in 1898. She followed her Art teacher Johannes Itten to bauhaus in 1919 where she worked in graphics and textiles. She later became a teacher there. Sometime Between 1923 and 1934, she and a fellow bauhaus student founded an office for. Architecture and Interior decorating in Berlin and Vienna she left Vienna for Prague Czechoslovakia after a coup by austrian nazis in 1934. In Prague she worked As an Art teacher and joined a group of left Wing German speaking immigrants. But in december 1942, the nazis deported Dicker Brandeis and her husband Pavel Brandeis to Terezin Terezin is better known by its German name ther Eisenstadt. The nazis established the ther Eisenstadt i 941. They kept secret that it was planned from the outset As a transit Camp a transit to one of the death Camps. Many jews thought it was a transit Stop to emigration to Palestine. More than 140,000 jews were interned in the Camp for the four years of its existence. Nearly 90,000 were deported and Only 17,000 survived. Some l 000 children were held captive in ther Eisenstadt and 1,633 of them were liberated with the Camp. Education of any kind was forbidden in the Camp but the prisoners started an underground school system. In 1943 there was Suc h an increase of reports of the horrific situation in German concentration Camps in the International press the nazis countered with propaganda on How Well the jews were being treated. 1 Horcsik Enstedt was spruced paint and Flower Beds and the shops were filled with goods although the jews weren t allowed to buy them. When a delegation from the International red Cross arrived on june 23, 1944, they were impressed by the neatness of the he scam had worked. In the summer of 1944, the nazis produced a film i to i Thror lives to jews a City about the c amp bythe popular entertainer Kurt Ceron deported irom Holland. In i heresies slant do. Ker Brandeis under the most Gitlic Ull c ire us stand sex organized Art classes Tor children using teaching methods developed by Itten and Hersell. A in it Lober 1 944, die , along with Many of her students was deported to the Gas c Hambers of. Aus but their Art remained and is available Tor All to see. I of jewish museum is Loc the main River at unto Mankai 14/1 5 about a i 5-Mmiile walk from the Omerberg c Ity Hull Square. He exhibition is open 10 . To 5 . through sundays and until 8 . On wednesdays. Admission is i. Marks about $1.75 , 1.50 Marks Lor students. I he exhibition Catalon c osts 2-8-Marks. A a a six pointed Star Marks a jewish prisoner in a drawing by Jiri Beutler who died in the concentration Camp at age 12. May 16, 1991 stripes Magazine 3
