Description: Walter Spitzer (Polish/French 1927-2001) 'Hear Straight', Etching, 16 3/4” x 22 3/4” sight, 24 1/4” x 30 1/4” in frame. Number 14/50 lower left, signed lower right. Depicting a man with child and village in background.Hebrew lettering within print apparently translates as "Hear Straight", hence use as likely title. From Wikipedia - Walter Spitzer (14 June 1927 – 13 April 2021) was a Polish-born French artist and painter. He was a survivor of the Holocaust. Biography Spitzer was born in Cieszyn on 14 June 1927. He lost his father, Samuel, who died in February 1940 due to illness, and his mother, Gretta, to the Nazis. In June 1940, his family fled to Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Gross-Rosen. He was then sent to Blechhammer and later Auschwitz, where he was separated from his mother. He was tattooed with the number 78489. He then participated in the death marches in January 1945 before his liberation by the United States Army. After he was freed, Spitzer moved to France and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He then spent his career as a painter, while continuing to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. Walter Spitzer died in Paris on 13 April 2021, at the age of 93, from COVID-19
Price: 450 USD
Location: New Harbor, Maine
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Artist: Walter Spitzer
Type: Print
Theme: Judaica
Features: Limited Edition, Numbered
Production Technique: Etching
Subject: Figures
