Presentation for a Seminar held at IMT, Center for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy. The Seminar focused on the concept of Memory within the Cultural Heritage. Works by Richard Serra, Maurizio Cattelan, Jannis Kounellis, Daniel Libeskind,a among others, were discussed with the students. were show

1. Art and museums of the Shoah
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2. Theodor von Adorno

3. To write a poem after Auschwitz is an act
of barbarism
Theodor von Adorno

4. Günther Grass

6. Perennial suffering has as much right to
expression as a tortured man has to
scream.
Theodor von Adorno

7. Section’s general outline
Art of the Shoah: Witnessing
Art of the Shoah: Reflection and Self
Inspiration
Museology and the Shoah

8. Art of the Shoah: Witnessing

9. Corrado Cagli

12. Alexander Bogen

13. Alexander Bogen

17. To be creative in the situation of the Holocaust,
this is also a protest Each man when he is
standing face to face with cruel danger, with
death, reacts in his way. The artist reacts with
his means. This is his protest! This is my
means! He reacts in an artistic way. This is his
weapon. He must leave his mark as a mensch
on mankind. This, it shows that the Germans
could not break his spirit.
Alexander Bogen

18. Nathan Rapoport

21. Marek Suzin, architect – Nathan
Rapoport, sculptor, Memorial of the
Ghetto Uprising, 1948, Warsaw

23. Nathan Rapoport, Exile (The Last March of
Treblinka), 1948, Warsaw, Monument to
the Ghetto Uprining

25. December 7, 1970: West Germany’s Prime
Minister Willy Brandt kneeling in front of Rapport’s
monument. “Should Brandt knee?” asks Der
Spiegel.

26. Primo Levi, Lodovico Belgioioso for BBPR,
Pupino Samonà, Luigi Nono and Nelo Risi, Italian
Memorial, 1980 Auschwitz I, Block 21

27. It's old wisdom, and so already
had warned Heinrich Heine, both
jew and German: who burns books
ends by burning men as well,
violence is a seed that will not be
extinguished.
Primo Levi

29. June 6, 2012 - Italian Football National Team
visits
Auschwitz-Birkenau, ahead of Euro 2012

30. So everything was true…
Gianluigi Buffon,
Italy’s goalkeeper, walking in Auschwitz II

31. Pupino Samonà, Italian
Memorial, detail, Auschwitz I,
Block 21

32. Art of the Shoah: Reflection and Self
Inspiration

35. Alberto Burri

36. Jean Fautrier

37. Antoni Tàpies

38. Richard Serra

39. Richard Serra, Walking is measuring, 2000,
Oporto Serralves Museum of Contemporary
Art

40. Richard Serra, Splashed metal performances,
1966-1968

41. Richard Serra, Splah Pieces,
1968

42. Richard Serra, The Drowned
and the Saved, 1992, Kolumba
Museum, Cologne

43. Richard Serra, Gravity, 1993,
United States Holocaust
Museum and Memorial

44. Richard Serra, Gravity,
Washington, USHMM

45. Richard Serra – Peter Eisenmann, Field of
Stelae,
(Memorial of killed Jews of Europa), Berlin

46. Richard Serra, Stelae,
New York Gagosian

47. Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, once
Federal Plaza, New York

48. Richard Serra – Peter Eisenmann, Field of
Stelae,
(Memorial of killed Jews of Europa), Berlin

49. Stommeln Synagogue’s
Art Project

50. Gerard Dornseifer, first curator of the
art project in Stommeln’s historical
synagogue

51. Synagogue, Stommeln
(Cologne)

53. Jannis Kounellis, Untitled,
1991, Stommeln, Synagogue

54. Richard Serra, The Drowned and the
Saved, 1992, first installation in the
synagogue of Stommeln

55. Daniel Buren, Multiplication, 2010,
Stommeln, Synagogue

56. The exhibition Mirroring Evil

59. Maurizio Cattelan, Him,
collection François Pinault

60. Maurizio Cattelan, Him,
collection François Pinault

61. The Jewish Museum, New
York, seat of Mirroring Evil

62. Norman Kleeblatt,
curator of Mirroring Evil

63. Victims, perpetrators, bystanders
Jonathan Littell

64. Victims, perpetrators, bystanders
Nir Baram

65. Museology and the Shoah

66. Museums built on the sites of memory
Museums of single local Jewish communities
or of the Jewish people assumed as a whole
Museums of the Shoah, or Holocaust
Museums

67. Museums built on the sites of memory
Main Cathegory: Memorial
Main example: Auschwitz-Birkenau

68. Museums of local Jewish communities,
of Jewish communities of a single nation,
or of the Jewish people intended as a whole
Main cathegory: Ethnography and/or
Ethnology
Main examples:
Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt
Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
Beit Hatfutsot, i.e. Museum of the Jewish
People, Tel Aviv

69. Museums of the Shoah, or Holocaust
Museums
Main cathegory: History
Main examples:
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
United States Holocaust Museum and
Memorial, Washington

70. Holocaust Museums in today’s
world

71. Holocaust Museums’s Prototypes
1948 - Israel Katnelson Museum of the Holocaust,
Kibbutz Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, or Ghetto Fighters
House, between Akko e Naharya, Israel
1953 - Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
1968 - Holocaust Museum, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, 20
km south of Ashkelon, Israel

72. Holocaust Museums after 1989
1993 - Holocaust Museum (now Museum of
Jewish Heritage), New York
1993 - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
1993 - United States Holocaust Museum and
Memorial, Washington
1996 – Holocaust Museum, Houston

73. Latest Holocaust Museums
2000 – The Holocaust permanent exhibition,
Imperial War Museum, London
2000 – Jüdisches Museum, Berlin [first and second
accrochage]
2005 – Musem and Memorial of Killed Jews of
Europe, Berlin
2009 – Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Centre, Skokie, Chicago

74. Holocaust Museums under construction
Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem
Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center,
Dallas
Museum of the Shoah, Rome

75. Israel Katnelson Museum of the Holocaust,
1949, Kibbutz Beit Lohamei Haghetaot,
between Akko e Naharya, Israel

77. Alexander Bogen

81. Yad Vashem (The Holocaust Martyrs’s and
Heroes’s Memorial Remembrance Authorithy),
1953, Jerusalem

83. Holocaust Museum, 1968, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, 15
km south of Ashkelon, Israel

90. Moshe Safdie, The historical addition, Yad
Vashem (The Holocaust Martyrs’s and Heroes’s
Memorial Remembrance Authorithy), Jerusalem

91. dDaniel Liebeskind, Detail,
Jüdisches Museum Berlin

93. Richard Serra, Gravity, 1993,
USHMM

96. Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, The Holocaust
Museum, 1993, New York

97. “To restore freedom”: the connection of the Holocaust
Museum with Ellis Island’s memorial, the Statue of
Liberty and Nathan Rapoport’s Liberation in Ronald
Reagan’s political perspective.

103. James Ingo Freed, Main Façade, United States
Holocaust Museum and Memorial, 1993, Washington
DC

104. Yaffa Eliach, The Tower of Names, United
States Holocaust Museum and Memorial,
Washington D.C.

105. The Holocaust permanent exhibition, 2000,
London, Imperial War Museum

106. The Holocaust permanent
exhibition, 2000, London,
Imperial War Museum

107. Richard Serra – Peter Eisenman, Denkmal und
Museum für ermordeten Juden Europas
(Memorial and Museum of killed Jews of
Europe), 2005, Berlin

110. Stanley Tigerman, Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Centre, 2009, Skokie, Chicago

111. Stanley Tigerman, Illinois
Holocaust Museum and
Education Centre,
2009, Skokie, Chicago

112. Luca Zevi, Museo della Shoah, forthcoming, Rome

113. Luca Zevi, Museo della
Shoah, Rome, forthcoming