Ambassador Scharioth Meets Artist Mindy Weisel
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- Ambassador Scharioth met with American artist Mindy Weisel at the German Embassy.
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Ambassador Scharioth met with artist and author Mindy Weisel at the German Embassy on October 5, 2009. The Washington, DC-based American artist will embark later this month on a two-week journey to Germany, where her art will be exhibited for the first time.
Mindy Weisel was born in a displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after the end of the Second World War, in 1947. She is the only daughter of parents who survived Auschwitz, her cousin is Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.
Her artworks, which are found in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Israel Museum, and the US Capitol, suggest personal reflections on her family's history. Some incorporate elements of the past—her father's Auschwitz number or pieces of her mother's dress—while others incorporate Hebrew words. The color schemes range from muted tones to bright hues.
A solo exhibition of her works entitled Full Circle - from Germany, 1947 to Germany, 2009 will be on display at the Lorch & Seidel Galerie in Berlin from October 22 to December 5, 2009. During her travels in Germany, Mindy Weisel will also give lectures in the cities of Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, and Kiel as well as at the Dachau Concentration Camp Educational Center.
Her upcoming trip to Germany, the solo exhibition and the exhibition's accompanying catalogue are sponsored by the United States Embassy in Berlin.
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