Concentration Camp
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:12 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:13
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author provides description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"When they found out that Jenko was blind, they tore off his clothes and dragged him into the so-called bathroom. Men, women and children entered with him. There were so many of them that Jenko couldn't even move. Foreign bodies rubbed against him, he felt fear, the children began to cry.
Suddenly everything went quiet. The door slammed. Instead of water, there was a hiss from the showers above their heads. The SS let off the gas. In a moment, only the desperate moans of suffocating people, calls for help and banging on the door could be heard inside. Jenko was crying until the last moment: Sarika, my dear, where are you, call me! But his cries and sobs were choked by the gas in his throat.
When all was quiet in the chamber, the death squad ventilated the room and the cleaners came to drag the corpses to the crematorium."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 19. 07. 2022
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
