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Tuesday, January 27th, 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
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ANNOUNCING RYWKA MESYNGER
eBay AUCTIONS
Original Post World War II Holocaust Survivor Art
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY-- January 27, 2004 -- Bidofthis.com is honored to announce that it will have two original untitled Rywka Bacha Mesynger paintings on board for auction on eBay on Sunday, February 1st at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
“Bird on Table” (16.5”X14” inc. frame) circa 1969 and “Sewing” (17.5”X14” inc. frame) circa 1963 both acrylic on board can currently be viewed in a Gallery Exhibit at Uniform Resource Locator:
Rywka
Bacha Mesynger (also known as Madame Feu Kutan) was born in Poland, in
Szczebrzeszyn on March 9, 1919. Her father, a Jewish cobbler craftsman,
ran a shoe shop. During the international crisis of 1932, an uprising of
workers, along with a general anti-Semite animosity and extremism forced him to
close his store. Rywka's parents sent her to Belgium to stay with her
bother who also ran a shoe-shop. She was 13 years old and did not know
how to read or write French. Rywka subsisted on text written in Yiddish
by Polish authors which she obtained from the Place Agnessens Jewish library in
Brussels. Rywka lived clandestinely at
the time because she did not have a “registration permit.” However in 1936 she met her husband, Avram
Kutan a haberdashery shop owner. Avram
and Rywka married in 1939 before the German invasion of May 1940.
In order to survive
Rywka had to disguise herself by dying her hair blond, covering her face with
outrageous make-up, and pretending to have a speech impediment. At this time she worked for a politically
connected Doctor and Nazi sympathizer as a maidservant and subjugated to
serving meals to high-ranking German authorities.
Rywka found refuge
in painting, her sole means of communicating with people around her. Each of her works expresses this fundamental
quality, deeply human, sometimes mystical or fatalistic characteristic through
an ordinary subject. There are four
dominant themes in Rywka’s work, “The Past,”
“The suffering of the Jewish people,” “Women/Flowers/Animals” and
“Tradition/Religion.” Her art recalls the work of Modigliani,
Soutine and Chagall, projecting the spirituality of the Jewish race, oneness
with nature, mankind, and a reflection of a tragic life.
Rywka
Bacha Mesynger passed away in 1980.
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