בידספיריט | Erich Brill (גרמניה, 1895-1942) -

Erich Brill (גרמניה, 1895-1942) - ירושלים, שמן על בד מוצמד ללוח. - אריך בריל Erich Brill (גרמניה, 1895-1942) - ירושלים, שמן על בד מוצמד ללוח, 1932. חתום ומתוארך. 46x54ס”מ. פגמים מינורים . אריך בריל היה אמן גרמני יהודי שנרצח על ידי הנאצים בשואה. בריל היה ד”ר לפילוסופיה ולמד אמנות בפריז. בתחילת שנות ה-30 עבודותיו סווגו כאמנות יהודית ומאוחר יותר כאמנות דגנרטית, מרבית עבודותיו הושמדו והוא עבר לאמסטרדם ב-1933. לאחר גירושיו עבר (בעקבות ילדתו) לסאו פאולו (ברזיל) ב-1934. ב-1936 חזר להמבורג ושנה לאחר מכן נאסר על סעיף ”זיהום הדם הארי” בעקבות זוגיותו. בריל בילה 14 חודשים במעצר, עם שחרורו ב-29 בנובמבר 1941 נשלח למחנה הריכוז יונגפרנהוף. בריל נורה למוות בירי ביער ביקרניקי, 26 למרץ 1942. Erich Brill was German painter (1895-1942), Holocaust victim. He was born into a Jewish family in Lubeck. They moved to Hamburg in 1897. Brill initially did an apprenticeship at his father’s timber wholesale company, then studied philosophy and political sciences, taking his doctorate in 1919. At the same time, he studied art. He also worked at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. He was active in Hamburg as a freelance artist from 1920 onwards. It was also in 1920 that he married the Jewish journalist Marte Leiser, their daughter Alice was born that same year. Also in 1920, Brill joined the Hamburg Art Association and the Hamburg Artists Association. He worked as a painting and drawing teacher in Orselina, near Locarno, until 1929. From 1931 onwards, Brill’s paintings were vilified as Jewish art, then as degenerate, and were destroyed. Brill emigrated to Amsterdam in late 1933, where he lived for a while with his brother Fritz Brill, and was able to exhibit and sell his paintings. He was divorced from his wife Marte, who emigrated to Brazil, leaving their daughter Alice with Brill in Amsterdam. They both followed Marte to Sao Paulo in 1934. In 1936, however, Brill decided to return to the Netherlands, where he enjoyed success exhibiting his Brazilian paintings. Despite urgent warnings from his brother Fritz, he returned to Hamburg in 1936 to close down his former studio there. He was denounced in 1937 and arrested for - racial defilement on account of having an Aryan girlfriend. Brill spent fourteen months in detention awaiting trial. He was ultimately condemned to four years in prison and sent to the Fuhlsbuttel Jail. He was released on 29 November 1941 and deported to the Jungfernhof concentration camp near Riga on 6 December 1941, where he was killed in a mass shooting in Bikernieki forest on 26 March 1942.