Frania Hart

Frania Hart
Frania Hart portrait from Undzere farpaynikte kinstler
Born
Frania Feigin

1896
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
Died1943

Frania Hart (1896–1943) was a Polish-born French painter known mainly for portraits and still lifes.[1][2][3] She was murdered in The Holocaust in 1943.[4]

Biography

She was born Frania Feigin in Warsaw in October 1896.[1][3] She came from a family of fabric merchants.[3] She studied in a Polish-language Gymnasium.[1] Because she showed an interest in art from a young age, she was sent to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.[3] In 1921 she went to Vienna to study in an art school there, and met Fritz Carp, a poet who was living there, and they were married.[1][3] Together, in 1928 they left Austria for France.[3] She enrolled in an art school there and entered into collaboration with a fellow artist named Benjamin Raphaël Secunda.[3][1] While working as an artist in Paris, she did participate in some group exhibitions there and in Warsaw, where a local museum purchased some of her works.[3][1] During World War II, she was no longer able to sell paintings and worked as a painting retoucher and seamstress to make ends meet.[1][3] Due to her Jewish background, a fellow artist offered to hide her and her husband, but she declined.[1] They were arrested by authorities in the middle of the night on 18 July 1943 along with several of their neighbors.[1] They were deported to a concentration camp; her place and time of death are not documented.[3][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Fensṭer, Hersh (1951). Undzere farpayniḳṭe ḳinsṭler (in Yiddish). Paris: H. Fensṭer. pp. 75–6.
  2. ^ Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2021). "Hart, Frania". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (in German). New York: K. G. Saur.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Frania HART". Bureau d’art Ecole de Paris. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  4. ^ Darmon, Adrian M. (2003). Autour de l'art juif : encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs (in French). [Chatou]: Editions Carnot. p. 65. ISBN 9782848550114.
  5. ^ "The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names List of Jewish artists from Poland who perished in the Holocaust. FRANIA HART". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  6. ^ "The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names Frania Feigin. FRANIA FEIGIN". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 21 May 2022.