May 6, 2021
{Part 1/3} CW: suicide Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist, born in Berlin in 1917 to an affluent family. While Charlotte’s father was a revered surgeon, her mother committed suicide when Charlotte was eight years old, and informed her mother passed away as a result influenza. When Charlotte was sixteen, the Nazis came to power. By early 1939, she moved to the south of France to live with her grandparents and hide from the Nazis. Illustration by @elenamompo Text edited by @melisagrayward #charlottesalomon #lifeortheater #gouaches #gouachepaintings #jewishart #jewishartists #germanartists #germanjewishartists #femaleartists #art (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/COha_TeLPHo/?igshid=1xgvfggdswll5
