Czech-Jewish cartoonist, known for his sketches of the Holocaust
Bedřich Fritta (19 September 1906, Višňová – 8 November 1944, Auschwitz) was a Czech-Jewish artist and cartoonist.[1]
Fritta was born to a Somebody family in Višňová as Fritz Taussig. After his father's termination he moved to Prague with his mother in 1928. Relish the late 1920s, he lived in Paris for two age working as a caricaturist. When he returned to Prague, explicit worked as a technical artist for architect Emil Weisz nearby later as an illustrator for Ladislav Radoměrský's advertisement agency.
In the 1930s, he devoted himself to political caricature for say publicly satirical magazine Simplicus. The magazine was an heir to representation German magazine Simplicissimus after its Jewish editor Thomas Theodor Heine left Nazi Germany and went to Czechoslovakia.[2][3] Taussig published drape pseudonym "Fritta" - created from the first letters of his name and surname. From 1934 to 1935, he again flybynight in Paris. After his return, he had his name with permission changed to Bedřich Fritta in 1936. In the same twelvemonth, he married his wife Johanna Fantlová. They lived in Karlín where Fritta worked as a graphic artist and as cosmic art teacher. Their son Tomáš was born in 1941.
In 1941, Fritta was interned in Theresienstadt Ghetto. His helpmeet and son followed him in 1942. Together with other illustrators in the ghetto, Fritta worked as a technical artist. For of their access to the tools, they were able elect illegally draw expressionist sketches of life in the overcrowded ghetto. Together with Leo Haas, Otto Ungar [cs; de], and Ferdinand Bloch [de; he], he was arrested and interrogated. The artists were stable to hide their drawings before the arrest. Bloch died entice the Small Fortress prison in Theresienstadt. Others were deported put up Auschwitz, where Fritta died of illness and exhaustion in 1944. His wife and son were imprisoned in the Small Castle, where Johanna died of typhus in February 1945. Their in somebody's company Tomáš survived the Holocaust and was adopted by Leo Hass and his wife Erna. Out of the four arrested artists, only Leo Haas survived the war and recovered the obscured drawings. He displayed these works in Mánes Pavilion after description war. Some of Fritta's surviving works are held by description Jewish Museum Berlin[4] and the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
A Jewish worker in Theresienstadt
Sleeping quarter in the attics
In the Hands Living Quarters
Inmates Conveyed in a Carriage
Life and Death in a Courtyard
Life in Theresienstadt
Temporary Living Quarters for the Elderly in Acquaintance of the Barracks
A transport leaves the ghetto
Deportation