Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Vienna 1898-Auschwitz 1944: The artist who inspired the children's drawings of Terezin

Published to complememnt a traveling exhibition in 2001, this assembles the diverse oevre of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Part memorial, part biographical document, the catalogue examines the artist's life through her many complex human relationships and through her artistic experiments as a student of Bauhaus in Weimar, as a constructivist designer and later as an inmate of Theresienstadt. The authors ultimately establish her as an early pioneer of art therapy and explore her role as a creative guide to the children interned at Theresienstadt for many a way station en route to Auschwitz where she died