Augustowska 3 (Dark Trees)
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- Type: Print
- Medium: Photopolymer
- Production Date: 2003 - 2004
- Copy Number: 4
- Edition: 15
- Description: Philip Braham writing about Augustowska:
'In 2000, I started a series of paintings depicting the forest and surrounding landscape of Augustowska, on the border with Poland and Lithuania. I had read about the history of the region in a book by historian Simon Schama entitled 'Landscape and Memory' and I became fascinated by the stories he uncovered. During the 2nd World War, many Jews survived in small cells by hiding in the forest, enduring pitiful hardship and living like animals. By the end of the war, as Stalins N.K.V.D. troops marched on towards Berlin, they were instructed to flush out Polish Liberation Army sympathisers. Entire villages were massacred and their corpses hidden in the forest, never to be found. The dense cover of the forest had provided sanctuary and sustenance on the one hand, but hid dreadful atrocities on the other.' - Dimensions: Paper: 56 cm x 65.5 cm
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Pathfoot J Corridor
- Accession Number: 2011.5
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
