Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
"Yizkor" – Postcard Illustrated by Pinchas Schuldenrein – Zeilsheim, ca. 1946
Opening: $250
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
"Yizkor 1939-45," illustrated postcard by Pinchas Schuldenrein (signed in the plate). Zeilsheim (Germany): P. Schuldenrein, [ca. 1946]. Hebrew.
Stirring color illustration, with the number "6,000,000" in the center, flanked by a pair of memorial candles soaking in blood, and with the digits of the number filled with images presenting the stages in the destruction of European Jewry, beginning with the digit "6" and proceeding backward from there, alluding to the sequential disappearance of the Jewish population from one stage to the next. On the final "zero" digit, we see an empty street with abandoned buildings, shredded books and Torah scrolls, and a burnt-out menorah. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "For He Who avenges blood remembers them" (Psalms 9:13).
The artist Pinchas Shuldenrein (1912-1998) was born in Poland and studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art. After the war, with the assistance of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), he opened a studio in the vicinity of the displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim, Germany, where, among other things, he created a poster with an illustration identical to the one on the present postcard (see Kedem, Auction No. 80, Lot 200). Shuldenrein taught art to children in the DP camps. In his own works, he focused on the theme of the Holocaust. In 1947 he moved to the United States and settled in New York. A few years later, he changed his name to Paul Sharon. He worked as a graphic designer in New York until his death in 1998.
14X10 cm. Good condition. Notation in pencil on back of postcard.
Stirring color illustration, with the number "6,000,000" in the center, flanked by a pair of memorial candles soaking in blood, and with the digits of the number filled with images presenting the stages in the destruction of European Jewry, beginning with the digit "6" and proceeding backward from there, alluding to the sequential disappearance of the Jewish population from one stage to the next. On the final "zero" digit, we see an empty street with abandoned buildings, shredded books and Torah scrolls, and a burnt-out menorah. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "For He Who avenges blood remembers them" (Psalms 9:13).
The artist Pinchas Shuldenrein (1912-1998) was born in Poland and studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art. After the war, with the assistance of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), he opened a studio in the vicinity of the displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim, Germany, where, among other things, he created a poster with an illustration identical to the one on the present postcard (see Kedem, Auction No. 80, Lot 200). Shuldenrein taught art to children in the DP camps. In his own works, he focused on the theme of the Holocaust. In 1947 he moved to the United States and settled in New York. A few years later, he changed his name to Paul Sharon. He worked as a graphic designer in New York until his death in 1998.
14X10 cm. Good condition. Notation in pencil on back of postcard.