The Haunted Imagination: Holocaust Images By G˙orgy Kádár

By February 1946, György Kádár had completed his first cycle of fifty-seven Holocaust drawings chronicling his experiences in five concentration camps. After more than a 40-year hiatus, he started his second Holocaust series The Haunted Imagination. The second graphic cycle was completed in two years and consists of sixteen drawings commemorating the murder of nearly one-half million Hungarian Jews. Fourteen of the sixteen drawings concern Auschwitz- Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp and the place where most Hungarian Jews were murdered. In this second suite of drawings, Auschwitz-Birkenau is both a personal and a generic symbol: it was one of the sites of Kádár’s own incarceration and the place where twenty- five members of his family had been killed; simultaneously it is the metaphor and symbol for all concentration camps.

Gallery Talk:
Thursday, November 5 • 5 p.m.

Reception following To 6:30 p.m.
co-sponsored by Holocaust lecture series

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