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Article: Fairy tales from a time of evil
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2009
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Jewish artist Bruno Schulz was ordered to paint a nursery for a
Nazi officer before he was murdered. After being hidden for decades,
his touching final work has gone on show in Jerusalem. Donald
Macintyre reports
Even without their tragic history, the murals would count as an
extraordinary vibrant, work of art. Yet for six decades they were
hidden from view in a Ukrainian family home after Second World War,
carelessly overlaid and damaged by pantry shelves and pink paint.
Yesterday some of the surviving fragments, painstakingly conserved
to maintain as much as possible of their original vitality, went on
public display for the first time finally doing justice to the
subversive genius and ...