Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © the Collector

Internees

1943

oil on card

22.5h x 28w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Portraits

RA Summer Exhibitions

Recto: signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich. 1943

Verso: signed

Alternatives:

[Redfern] []

Jewish Internees [RE sales diary]

23h x 28w []

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Themes

portraits

Subject

Portrait

glasses

group

imprisoned

internee

male

men

war

Medium

Oil

Richard became particularly aware of the Nazi concentration camps through his friendship and correspondence with one of his patrons, Sydney Schiff. This painting is one of two Richard did out of his imagination in response to the what he learned about the plight of Jewish people on the continent during the war. The other one, "From Dachau", is illustrated below.

- REP-PC

“Since I last wrote I have painted another very small work, or rather a study, of Jews in a concentration camp. The painting of it is almost like a watercolour, transparent and no solid white used, except for the white ground on which it is painted, and since this little effort I have been reading Feuchtwanger’s ‘The Devil in France’ being his experiences in concentration camps during the first six months of the war, and I felt I had got very much the feeling into my painting of some of the men he describes."

- Richard’s letter to Sydney Schiff in December 1942