Lot 426
"Concentration Camp" – Yehuda Bacon
Concentration camp, print signed by the artist, Holocaust survivor, Yehuda Bacon.
Bacon was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. In 1942 Bacon was deported with his family to Theresienstadt and in 1943 to Auschwitz. When Auschwitz has been evacuated he was sent with the Death Marches to the camps of Blechhammer, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen. Was freed on May 5, 1945. Bacon started his studies in the Prague Art Academy. In his works Bacon portrayed his experiences during the Holocaust. Most of his works express what he witnessed in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt. The drawings he drew of the Auschwitz crematoriums were presented as evidence in Eichmann's trial. Made"Aliya" to Israel in 1946 and started to study in the "Bezalel" academy of art. Later on he went to continue his studies in London and Paris. When he returned he was appointed as a teacher in "Bezalel". Won in 2010 the Mordechai Ish Shalom prize for his life work.
