ÁGNES LUKÁCS

auschwitz noi tabor info

AUSCHWITZ NÖI TÁBOR / AUSCHWITZ WOMEN'S CAMP

Artworks by Ágnes Lukács
Edited by Party of Socialist-Zionist (ICHUD)
Budapest, 1946

Cover plus 28 lithographed sheets
20.5 x 24.5 cm (24.5 x 20.5 cm) / framed 30.0 x 34.0 cm (34.0 x 30.0 cm)

"When I came home from the camp, I immediately began to draw my experiences. I made a series of ink drawings, twenty-four pictures of Auschwitz." (Ágnes Lukács)

The portfolio "Auschwitz Nöi Tábor" (Auschwitz Women's Camp) was published in Budapest as early as 1946. It contains 24 lithographs. They were published by the Socialist-Zionist party Ichud on the first anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto in 1946. The work "Összebújva" ("Close together") is also part of the cycle, to which Schittny's video work "Dignity - Tribute to Ágnes Lukács (Edit 2)" refers. The works in the portfolio show experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the most reduced form, in simple outline drawings. The barbed wire is omnipresent in everyday life at the camp. In "Auschwitz Nöi Tábor", as the historian Christiane Heß puts it, Ágnes Lukács repeatedly uses the motif of the group as well as the means of cropping, thus "condensing the visual narratives of forced labour, selection, hunger, violence and death."