The ghetto wall
1943
- Medium
- oil on canvas on composition board
- Measurements
- 44.4 × 37.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.l.: Bergner
inscribed in brush and ink on reverse u.c.: 44 x 37 (…illeg.) / Yosl Bergner / "THE GHETTO WALL" (…illeg.) / 1943 - Accession Number
- A2-1985
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Yosl Bergner, Founder Benefactor, 1985
© Estate of the artist
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Emotions and Mental States Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- barbed wire ghettos imprisonment men (male humans) social realism suffering walls World War II (global war, 1939-1945)
- Movements
- Modernism
