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    Artist

  • Kronstein-Rosen, Nora

    • Title

  • Refugees

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 65 x 79 cm. ; 25.5" x 31" +, frame

  • Date

    1991

  • Notes

    Signed and dated in lower right.

  • Summary

    A woman sits holding an infant, while a group is gathered in right. In the background are vague forms that curve to the left, possibly the edge of a city or a treeline in a desert area. The foreground vaguely depicts the figures and faces of men and women The colors are block-like, similar to a mosaic or stained glass window.

  • Subject

    Infants; Mothers; Jewish refugees

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Nora Kronstein-Rosen was born to Robert and Ilona (née Neumann) Kronstein in 1925, probably in Vienna. In 1938, her mother fled with Nora and her older sister, Gerda, to Vaduz, Liechtenstein. From 1939 onwards, Nora Kronstein-Rosen lived in Switzerland. She went to the Ecole d'Humanité (the School of Humanity), a reform pedagogic oriented boarding school. She studied art in Lausanne and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zuerich (Zurich Art School) under Johannes Itten. After her mother's death Nora went to New York and London, later settling in Israel.

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Citation

Kronstein-Rosen, Nora: Refugees, Leo Baeck Institute, 2003.19.