Surrealist drawing of figure in boat
Date made: 1940
Artist: unknown
Description: A pencil sketch of a surrealist figure in a boat at sea.
Collected by Dr Klaus E. Hinrichsen (1912-2004) during his time as an internee in Hutchinson Camp. Hinrichsen was a young art historian who had fled to Britain in the 1930s to avoid Nazi persecution, and found himself interned with some of the leading German refugee artists of the day. He appreciated and recognised the significance of the material being produced in Hutchinson Camp, and began to collect and exhibit pieces within the camp. The resulting collection contains examples of the camps leading artists such as Erich Kahn, Hermann Fechenbach, Helmut Weissenborn, Bruno Ahrends, Fritz Kraemer and Paul Henning.
Materials: paper
Object name: drawing
Collection: Art Collection
ID number: 1996-0070/33
Subject tags : #WW2INTERNMENTMUSEUMCOLLECTIONS