oha 2018

Wrestling mit Hannah Arendt, the Shoah, Bayer Leverkusen aspirin and slave labor

Art: 2018
Media: Ink, colored pencil, collaged-on Israeli postage stamps, an Israeli air mail/par avion sticker, rubber stamps stamped on the drawing paper
Size: paper, 14 inches H x 17 W [35.6 cm H x 43.1 W] unframed / Papiergröße: 35,6 cm Höhe x 41,1 Breite (unframed)

Hannah Arendt was born in Linden, now near Hanover, Germany, 1906. She passed on in New York City, 1975.
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She was the author of a number of important books on totalitarianism, and is best known as the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, pub. 1963.

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The Bayer Levenkusen plastic aspirin container had belonged to the late American Jewish artist Selma Waldman. Please visit the Selma Waldman Legacy Project on Facebook.

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The German Bayer Leverkusen company, best known in the United States for Bayer aspirin, used slave laborers in their manufactories during the years of the Third Reich.

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I previously drew this Bayer container in a 2010 multi-image portrait of Rita Rosani. [see Other Holocaust Art 2010 Rita Rosani]