Death Sentence
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:30 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:33
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 adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"The SS soldiers began laughing and yelling: Banditen! Partisanen! They caught everyone who managed to run from the tight circle of soldiers. While one group drove the Roma into the huts, the other group doused them with gasoline and then set the settlement to fire. Oh, horror upon horror!
Feri shouted: Why shall we die like cattle? We are people! Aren’t you afraid of God? Taking so many lives! Flames erupted from the huts. Human roars and cries rang out from them. Men pounded on the doors, on the walls, pressed to the small windows and begged for mercy. All in vain.
As the smoke thickened with the smell of burnt flesh and bones, some of the guards’ stomachs churned. They vomited. The SS commander roared: This is how I will eliminate all inferior and degraded races! We, the Germans, have lit a cleansing fire and will rid the world of filth!"
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
