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Cambridge Library Presentation My Holocaust Heritage and the Basis of some of my Artistic Works

Cambridge Library Presentation My Holocaust Heritage and the Basis of some of my Artistic Works. Fred K. Manasse April 14, 2011. Points I will cover in this presentation. My childhood in Germany & the Diaspora which brought me to the USA My Diaspora- the Sculpture

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Cambridge Library Presentation My Holocaust Heritage and the Basis of some of my Artistic Works

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  1. Cambridge Library PresentationMy Holocaust Heritage and the Basis of some of my Artistic Works Fred K. Manasse April 14, 2011

  2. Points I will cover in this presentation • My childhood in Germany & the Diaspora which brought me to the USA • My Diaspora- the Sculpture • My first attempt at expressing my own family’s sacrifice to save my brother and me • A way to remember my personal loss of family • Creative Art as a relief from my EarlyTrauma • A method for expressing residual effects on being a holocaust survivor • As a way to remember my personal loss

  3. Papa, Gus and Mama~1934

  4. Mama and we kids ~1938

  5. Family pictures from before 1939

  6. Gus, me and Papa in Brussels-1939

  7. Group Photo at Seyre-1940 Me @ 5 1940

  8. Chateau de la Hille, Montegut-Plantorel, Vichy France -1941

  9. Inside entrance gate at Chateau de la Hille -1941

  10. My “Moyen Kinder” Group Photo at La Hille ~ 1941

  11. Myriam in Frankfurt a/m ~1941

  12. Papa, Tante Liesel, Gus and Me @ Camp Gurs 1942

  13. Me with my Pilot helmet and big stick hiking with my Kinder Group at La Hille ~ 1943

  14. Memorial Plaque @ Chateau de la La Hille , Montegut-Plantorel-2007

  15. Jewish Children in Safe House Barcelona, Spain-1944

  16. Jewish Children in Orphanage, Lisbon,Portugal-1944

  17. Selected images of Fred Manasse & family in USA 1945-2010

  18. Me when I left Europe and arrived in America-Jan. 11, 1945

  19. My Alien Registration Card on Arrival in USA – Jan. 11 1945

  20. Gus, Helen, Annette and Me when we Married -Jan. 22, 1956

  21. Basis of “My Diaspora” -- My intact Family in Germany 1934-1938 -- My last visit with my father in France Camp Gurs, March,1942 -- The last picture of my sister Myriam on her 5th birthday in Frankfurt a/m - 1942 -- The actual Sculpture – My Diaspora -- Creating the sculpture

  22. My DiasporaAn assembled bronze sculpture of my own family heritage as of January 1945

  23. Blowup of base & middle of “My Diaspora” The murdered/missing family members

  24. Artist Statement by Fred Manasse - 2011 In all of my artistic work, I try to represent a very personal vision of my subject matter and the target audience for whom the finished work is intended. In my sculpture I want to let my passions and emotions dominate the pieces I create rather than trying to make accurate representations of what I see directly. In my figurative work, although I look at the model and capture the geometry of the figure, I then adjust the sculptural gesture and features to match my inner view of the model to better reflect my own emotion and mood, thereby offer ing the viewer an insight of the person depicted in the sculpture. I am passionate about the individualistic figurative works I create, and as a member of the Beaumont Sculpting group for 7 years have now created more than a dozen bronze and resin nudes. I have also done over a half dozen more abstract assembled works based on my heritage as a child survivor of the Holocaust. I have a number of themes that I am trying to convey to the public about tolerance in those works, and have participated and even curated, a number of exhibitions by joining with other artists. This provides me with more extensive opportunities to make my social views a forum for helping the viewing public to change the world to one which is devoid of intolerance and persecution

  25. Some Additional Sculptures Created with the Holocaust in Mind • Specific sculpture which I created to demonstrate that my emotions can be clearly displayed in my art • Other examples of my Emotion based art • Art can sometimes do a better job than prose in displaying emotions • Creating people immersed in traumatic situations can relieve an artist’s trauma

  26. Tante Liesel and Evelyn in Gurs-2005 ; Painted Resin

  27. Despair- A face of Suffering

  28. Female Camp Resident

  29. Reaching for the Fence - 2007 ; Painted Resin

  30. A Menorah for the Victims Stained Glass -2002

  31. Remember Them -2010; Assembled Bronze

  32. In Memoriam

  33. For my Murdered Family Members in the Holocaust Assembled Bronze on Granite - 2011

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