us-005578-irn521124-irn521137
title: Alms The Way 70 Aquatints-Etchings Plate 11, Herbert Sandberg, Der Weg: hand giving 500 million mark note to a beggar
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scope and content: Aquatint by Herbert Sandberg about his experiences during the monetary crisis in 1920s Germany. It is one in the series, Der Weg [The Path], a limited edition of 70 intaglio prints created from 1958-1965 for Buchenwald Museum for the 20th anniversary of liberation. Sandberg was imprisoned for 11 years by the Nazi regime, 7 under brutal conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp. Der Weg is a comprehensive autobiographical cycle, made to remind people of the day to day life destroyed by the Nazi dictatorship, as well as the horrors and immorality of the camps. The main sections are: prints 1-25, pre-1933 life; 26-60, resistance and persecution, including reconstructions of drawings Sandberg made while incarcerated; and 61-70, survivors postwar and the making of a new Germany. Sandberg, 26, was arrested in Berlin in 1934 for distributing anti-Nazi literature. He was convicted of treason and jailed. In 1938, he was transferred to the recently opened Buchenwald, as prisoner 3491, marked as both a Jewish and a political prisoner. In 1944, ill and in the infirmary, Sandberg created his first artworks as a prisoner. Buchenwald was liberated on June 12, 1945, by US troops. Sandberg returned to Berlin and resumed his career.
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Aquatint etching on wove paper depicting, on the right, a large hand holding a bank note for 500 Funfhundert Millionen Mark [Five Hundred million marks]. It is being placed into the smaller, wrinkled hand of a person with a white armband with 3 black dots, which was worn by the blind. In the left corner, an emaciated dog with exposed ribs sniffs at a crumpled object near a trash can. This print is 11 in a series of 70 prints, Der Weg. front, bottom corners, ink : 11 40/50
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)
history: Herbert Sandberg was born on April 14, 1908, in Posen, Germany, (later Poznan, Poland) to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Eva and Salomon Sandberg. His father Salomon was a leather merchant. Shortly after his birth, the family move to Hindenberg, also in the Silesian/ Prussian region of Germany (later Zabrze, Poland). When Herbert was a teenager, they moved to Breslau, (later Wroclaw, Poland) where he attended high school. After graduation, he briefly attended trade school, and worked in a bank, but then pursued an art education, which led to a break with his father who did not approve. Between 1925 and 1928, Herbert attended a local Arts and Crafts School in Breslau, and studied with Otto Müller at Breslau's Academy of Fine Arts. He also began working as an illustrator and newspaper cartoonist. In 1927, Herbert began his association with Bertolt Brecht after he was hired by the Breslau Volksbühnenzeitschrift, a theatre magazine, to draw a portrait of Brecht in his Berlin studio. In 1928, Herbert's father immigrated to Palestine, where his wife and daughters joined him in 1930. In 1928, Herbert moved to Berlin where he worked for major newspapers, such as Berliner Tageblatt. He joined the Revolutionary German Artists' Association (ASSO). In 1930, he became a member of the Communist Party, for which he created and distributed leaflets, posters, and other graphic materials. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. After the Reichstag Fire in February, civil rights were suspended. Germany became a police state and those who opposed the government were persecuted. In 1934, Sandberg was arrested for distributing anti-Nazi literature and imprisoned in Berlin-Plotzensee Prison. He was convicted of treason and sent to Brandenburg-Gorden Prison. On July 21, 1938, Sandberg was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943 deportation transp…
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identifier: irn521137
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has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1962-01-01
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history: The aquatint was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1962-12-31