The Holocaust in the Paintings of Valentin Lustig

Mon 1 Jan to Sun 14 Jan. Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, 10011. 212-294-8330 x8816. Yeshiva University Museum - [email][events]

A postwar child of East European Holocaust survivors, Lustig has created symbolic scenarios of this traumatic period of history. Using his fertile imagination, the artist has developed his own iconography consisting of people, animals, landscapes, still-lifes, architecture in a Surrealist style relating to the works of Dali, de Chirico, and Magritte, and sharing the detail and impact of Hieronymus Bosch. Born in Cluz, Romania, he studied painting in Florence, Italy and has lived in Israel but now resides in Zurich, Switzerland. He has exhibited in Germany, Switzerland and the U.S.