Show all records
Click image for high resolution zoom or multiple image views.

    Artist

  • Troller, Norbert, 1896-1981

    • Title

  • Terezin : On a supervised outing

  • Physical Description

    Painting : watercolor and pencil on paper ; 8.1" x 12" ; 20.6 x 30.4 centimeters

  • Date

    1942

  • Notes

    Titled, dated, and initialed in lower right. Artist's number G-2.

  • Summary

    Three children in a baby carriage surrounded by older children on foot, guided by two women. Set against a grassy hill.

    Troller's caption: "Young teacher with kindergarten on an outing."

  • Subject

    Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Children in art; Women in art

  • Medium

    Watercolors; Paintings

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Born in Bruenn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) in 1900, Norbert Troller served as a soldier in World War I, spending time as a prisoner-of-war in Italy. After the war, he studied architecture in Brno and Vienna and worked as an architect in Brno until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, where he worked as an architect for the Jewish self-administration of the camp, and produced works of art as well. In 1944, he was imprisoned by the Gestapo, and was sent to Auschwitz later that year. After liberation, he lived briefly in Kraków, and then reopened his architectural business in Prague and Brno. He immigrated to the United States in 1948 and worked for the National Jewish Welfare Board in New York designing Jewish community centers, before opening his own practice. He died in 1984.

Related Works in the LBI Catalog

Artist:

This will search DigiBaeck, a subset of the LBI Catalog concentrating on all of its digitized materials that are available online. The search will list all of LBI's digitized materials pertaining to this artist/creator, including artworks (those described in the Griffinger Portal and more), archival collections, photographs, rare books, and periodicals.

Reproductions and Permissions

We welcome fair use of this content. Please credit the Leo Baeck Institute in your citation. For usage policies and to request higher resolution images, see Reproductions and Permissions.

Citation

Troller, Norbert: Terezin : On a supervised outing, Leo Baeck Institute, 82.228.