Yosl Bergner, Pumpkins, 1942.Yosl Bergner served in the Army Labour Company from 1941 to 46 and
Yosl Bergner, Pumpkins, 1942.Yosl Bergner served in the Army Labour Company from 1941 to 46 and was stationed at Toocumwal, New South Wales, the Australian-American base that was to be the final command post if Australia was invaded and overrun. Yet, it was not the war in Australia or the Pacific that was the subject of his paintings during those years. Bergner’s mind was filled with stories and images of the plight of Jews in Europe. Pumpkins depicts life in the Jewish ghettos of Europe. Against a backdrop of tenement houses an impoverished family drags a primitive cart filled with pumpkins to sell at a local market. -- source link
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