Prev Lot 0227: Marcel Slodki (Polish, 1892-1943/4) - Jewish Boy, Lithograph. Next

Marcel Slodki (Polish, 1892-1943/4) - Jewish Boy, Lithograph. Signed. 63x49cm. Marcel Slodki was a Polish-Jewish painter, graphic artist and set designer. Slodki was the son of an authorized signatory and bank director in Lodz. He first attended the local school before studying with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. He was one of the first Dadaists in Zurich. From 1921 to 1924 he lived in Berlin and was director of the Wild Stage. In 1924 Slodki moved to Paris. He showed his works at the Paris Salon des independants 1928 and Salon dAutomne 1937, in Warsaw in 1934 and in London in 1938. During the Second World War he lived in hiding in Brive-la-Gaillarde. In 1943 he was able to evade arrest because he was warned in good time. Using forged documents, he and his wife fled to Bourg-Saint-Maurice near Chambery. On December 14, 1943, they were betrayed again and initially interned in Drancy, and deported to Auschwitz on December 17, 1943.