Art, family, Greta Schreyer

My Mother’s Art- The 6 Burning Wooden Synagogues

At the end of her life, my mother, Austrian emigre artist Greta Schreyer (1917-2005), painted a series of 6 burning wooden synagogues. These synagogues burned on Kristallnacht, six months after my mother said goodbye to her parents at a train station in Vienna, never to see them again.

Yesterday morning the LA Museum of the Holocaust came to see them, along with some of the other works of art I inherited when my mother died. Fingers crossed that these paintings find the right home!

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1 thought on “My Mother’s Art- The 6 Burning Wooden Synagogues”

  1. Amazing. i grew up with a lithograph of the haunting “Boy with Flute” in my bedroom which I have kept. I would love to know more than I can find online about it.

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