The painters and graphic artists Friedrich von Bömches and Karl Brandsch from Transylvania and Emerich Amberg from Banat were deported to the USSR for forced labor in 1945 as a result of the Second World War.
In the camps, they had to produce propaganda images of the Soviet nomenklatura or the so-called "best workers", but they were also able to document everyday life in the camps and portray their fellow inmates on small pieces of paper, sometimes using improvised means.
As important contemporary documents, a number of these works have been donated to the collection of the Transylvanian Museum as part of the 75th anniversary commemoration of the deportation in the years 2020 to 2022.
They convey an exemplary picture of the period and art production in the labor camps between propaganda and artistic self-development.
The cabinet exhibition is a contribution to the project network "1945 - 2025. 80 years after the Second World War. Remembrance and the Present in Germany and Eastern Europe." of the BKGE Oldenburg.
In the camps, they had to produce propaganda images of the Soviet nomenklatura or the so-called "best workers", but they were also able to document everyday life in the camps and portray their fellow inmates on small pieces of paper, sometimes using improvised means.
As important contemporary documents, a number of these works have been donated to the collection of the Transylvanian Museum as part of the 75th anniversary commemoration of the deportation in the years 2020 to 2022.
They convey an exemplary picture of the period and art production in the labor camps between propaganda and artistic self-development.
The cabinet exhibition is a contribution to the project network "1945 - 2025. 80 years after the Second World War. Remembrance and the Present in Germany and Eastern Europe." of the BKGE Oldenburg.
Ausstellung im Grafikkabinett des Siebenbürgischen Museums
