Leo Haas

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Leo Haas
Born(1901-04-15)April 15, 1901
Troppau, Austria-Hungary
DiedAugust 13, 1983(1983-08-13) (aged 82)
East Berlin, East Germany
NationalityGerman
Known for
  • Painting
  • graphic
  • drawing
Tomb of Leo Haas in the series of artists' graves in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde.
Cross-border, poster by Leo Haas.

Leo Haas (15 April 1901 – 13 August 1983)

caricaturist
.

Life

Born in

Emil Orlik and Willy Jaeckel. He worked from 1926 as a painter, graphic artist, press artist and caricaturist in Vienna and later in his hometown Opava
in Czechoslovakia.

After the Nazi Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Haas, who came from a middle-class Jewish family, was deported to the "Juden-KZ" Nisko, a forced labor camp personally supervised by Adolf Eichmann. Haas was one of the 500 inmates who were then later returned to their home towns.[2]

In late autumn 1942, he and his wife were deported to the

Small Fortress prison and later to other concentration camps. Haas was the only painter of Theresienstadt who survived imprisonment.[2] Immediately before being taken for interrogation, the artists managed to produce many hundreds of drawings[3] and also to hide the picture book For Tommy on his third birthday in Theresienstadt 22.1.1944 by Bedřich Fritta for his son Tomáš.[2] After the liberation Haas was able to recover the drawings. The book was published in 1985.[4]

On 28 October 1944, Haas became prisoner no. 199 885 in

KZ Mauthausen and later to Ebensee concentration camp
together with the printing presses. There they were liberated by American troops shortly after their arrival on 6 May 1945.

After 1945, Haas lived in Prague with his wife Erna, who had also survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the Small Fortress Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and other concentration camps, as a press artist. In his biography, he emphasised that he had consciously chosen this path and against a "pure" artistic career as a painter because of his concentration camp experiences. His wife died in 1955 as a result of medical experiments in Auschwitz.[2]

In the Gestapo prison Small Fortress Theresienstadt, Erna Haas took intensive care of Bedřich Fritta's three-year-old son, Tomáš. After their liberation in 1945, they adopted Tomáš Fritta. Bedřich Fritta was murdered in Auschwitz in November 1944, his wife died in the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt.[6]

From 1955, Haas lived in East Berlin, where he worked as a cartoonist for the

Eulenspiegel and other newspapers.[1] To the latter magazine he contributed from the first issue (1954)[7] contributed a total of 1185 drawings until 1982.[8] For his 70th birthday, DEFA created the documentary Zeichner – Zeuge – Zeitgenosse [de
].

Haas died in East Berlin at the age of 82 and was buried in the artists' section of the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.

Works

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0423-5975
    , p. 3.
  2. ^
    OCLC 18522165
    .
  3. ^ "Mit dem Zeichenstift gegen das Vergessen". The Holocaust artists Fritz Lederer (1878–1949) and Leo Haas (1901–1983) Exhibition at the Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim, 3 September 2009 – 28 March 2010.
  4. ISBN 3-7885-0269-X
    .
  5. ISBN 3-87682-714-0
    (autobiography).
  6. ^ "Tomáš Fritta". Theresienstadt Lexicon. Archived from the original on 2016-04-07. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  7. ISBN 3-412-15005-3
    , p. 100.
  8. ^ Eulenspiegel-Sonderausgabe. The years 1980–1989 Berlin 2004, p. 209.

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