Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until he moved to Prague after the Second World War. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Bern, Switzerland.
The Jewish Museum In Prague organized an exhibition of his work in 2001 entitled “A Painter of Soul.”

Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until he moved to Prague after the Second World War. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he emigrated to Bern, Switzerland.
The Jewish Museum In Prague organized an exhibition of his work in 2001 entitled “A Painter of Soul.”

Mixed media on Board entitled “Reisen” (Traveling)
Dated 1989 on the reverse.
127 X 123 cm
Swiss artist Vinzenz Daxelhofer, known as Dax, was born in Bern in 1938.   He studied architecture at the ETH in Zürich, and painting with the Swiss artist Max von Mühlenen in Bern.  Early in his career (1965-1971), he  worked primarily as an [...]

Holocaust survivor Vavro Oravec did not become an artist until after the second world war. Born in the Slovakian town of Tvrdošín in 1915, Oravec studied medicine in Bratislava during the 1930s. After being prohibited from practicing medicine because he was Jewish, he worked with Jewish children who had been expelled from school. In 1944 he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, and then sent to the concentration camps at Gross Rosen and Blechhammer.