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Den Brotwagen schieben
Pushing The Bread Cart
© Zvi Hirsch Szylis und Rechtsnachfolger*innen; Foto: Stefan Schiske für Lehr Kunstauktionen Berlin

Pushing The Bread Cart, 1949

Untertitel"Product Transport" in the Lodz Ghetto
Absender*inZvi Hirsch Szylis, Bełchatów 1909–1987 Ẕefat
MediumOil on canvas
(H x W)55,5 × 80,5 cm
Status
on display, room 026
About the workSeveral people push and pull a cart through a seemingly peaceful street. The depiction of a bread delivery in the Łódź ghetto by Polish-Jewish artist Zvi Hirsch Szylis is based on a drawing from 1942. In fact, the scene provides insight into an inhumane living situation: forced to move to the ghetto in 1939, Syzlis secretly painted everyday life there. Jewish forced labourers produced military equipment, uniforms and household goods for the German war economy on site, while barely receiving any food themselves. The artist survived deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in 1944. After the war, he recovered his works, which had been hidden in the former ghetto. Szylis exhibited this painting, among others, in a solo exhibition in Munich in 1950.
AccessionAcquisition 2025
Provenance[...]; o. D. Privatsammlung, München; o. D. Privatsammlung Bad Homburg; 3.5.2025 angekauft von Kunstauktionen Lehr, Berlin
Inventory number0.2025.12
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