Leo Haas: Artist and Witness of His Times

Original title: Leo Haas: Zeichner - Zeuge - Zeitgenosse
Duration: 13 min
Release date: 1971-06-25
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When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in different concentration camps and became known for the paintings he did in the Theresienstadt camp. This film presents Haas as a political artist and resistance fighter and celebrates him as a socialist caricaturist dedicated to the GDR.

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Leo Haas: Zeichner - Zeuge - Zeitgenosse

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