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Begun 2000, completed 2002.

Three portraits drawn in ink & gouache with stitching on separate sheets approximately 8" x 12" each. Included with the portraits are interpretative representations of an early 20th century Viennese watch and a 1920's Vienna trolley ticket.
(unframed)
For gallery installation the artwork can be installed any one of four directions, at the discretion or indiscretion of the curators

TRIPLE PORTRAIT OF CAMILLE HAHN OF TELC, CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Dreifaches Portrat der
Camille Hahn von Telc, Tschechoslawakei

UWG Art No. 44

Camille, a first cousin of Alexander Schwarz of Vienna was born in Telc in 1922 and murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.

Schwarz, a refugee from Vienna, Austria, lived in Seattle for about 45 years. In October '99 Segan visited Schwarz at the Jewish Home for the Aged (Maimonides - Centrum Home) in Vienna in October '99 where he saw the photo of Schwarz's cousin Camille.

The drawings are mounted on a large "upside-down" pyramid-like mixed media color drawing. All are mounted on an old weathered painted wooden board with holes in it.
Size: 48" H x 36" W (as seen at left, vertically)
121.9 x 91.4 cm
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2001- 2002
32" H x 47 ½" W
81.2 x 120.6 cm
Ink, gouache and colored pencil on paper, mounted on masonite
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The photo above was from a Pacific Lutheran University foreign language dept. installation. The book seen at left of the display case is open to the photo of Zisl used for the drawing.

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Adolph Hitler shaking hands with a Protestant minister and a Catholic bishop during a 1930's Nazi rally

HITLER'S YO-YO, ZISL THE STREET MUSICIAN & DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WITH HONORARY HORNS

Hitler's Yo-Yo, Zisl der Strassenmusikant,
und Dietrich Bonhoeffer mit Ehrenhornern

Wings Art No. 45

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Paul Schoenfield CD cover - the Zisl photo has no attribution & was colorized by the CD's publisher.

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Please click to enlarge 2001 Black India ink, colored inks, gouache colored pencil on etching paper. 22 1/4" H x 27 7/8" W (paper) 56.5 x 70.6 cm (unframed) It is believed Grynspan was murdered in a concentration camp in 1942. He wrote: "It is not a crime to be a Jew. I am not a dog. I have a right to live. The Jewish people have a right to some part of the earth." In light of the Palestinian struggle for a homeland of their own, decades after Israel became a nation out of the ashes of the murder of 2/3 of Europe's Jews, his words seem ironic. In 2001, 2002,2003, 2004... Jews & Palestinian Christians & Muslims kill and maim each other each other in a deadly retaliation game played over and over again, over "the right to some part of the earth." Both sides believe the land is theirs, by reason of intergenerational inheritance, political justification and/or religious claim.	HERSCHEL GRYNSPAN WITH HORNED WINGS, CHRISTMAS CACTUS, PRE-COLUMBIAN LIKE STILL LIFE, AND HORRIBILUS JUDENFISCHES APPARITIONUS Herschel Grynspan mit gehornten Flugeln, Weihnachtskaktus, Prakolumbianischahnliches Stillleben und Horribilus Judenfisches Apparitionus UWG Art No. 46 Drawn from a photo taken when he was 17, Grynspan was born in 1921. After he shot and killed a German diplomat in Paris in 1938, the German's unleashed Kristallnacht, also known as The Night of Broken Glass. During this Nazi government sponsored rioting, several hundred Jews were murdered, 30,000 Jews were arrested & sent to concentration camps, thousands of Jewish-owned stores were pillaged and hundreds of synagogues were burned down. Judenfisches is German for Jewfishes. The fish drawn by Grynspan's left shoulder (to viewers right) is of a devil fish with a few additions. It's singing something grand. Please click to enlarge Months after I completed the drawing I saw a NY Times article (photo, above, Oct. 23, 2001) about how Hollywood movies have portrayed the new age of atomic bombs and people's fears of bio-warfare technology. The classic 1954 sci-fi like movie "THEM" had mutant giant ants menacing humanity. Note the similarity between this ants antennae and the "horned wings" I drew on Grynspan's head.

I spent almost ten years of my young adulthood pondering the most important question for my generation. The question was very simple, and we asked it of our fathers and our mothers, our teachers and professors, our textbooks and our culture. The question was related to the Holocaust: How could it have happened? The most terrifying response we got to this question was the most innocent one. People told us that they were unaware of what was happening, that they did not know. I never believed this, and I would not accept this response from anyone. - Dorothee Sölle, a German Christian and theologian born in 1929 and quoted from her preface to The White Rose, published in English in '70, '83 by Wesleyan University Press and Harper & Row. The White Rose, about several small groups of university students and a few older faculty who leafleted against the Nazi government. Some were guillotined by the Germans for their actions. It was originally published in German as Die Weisse Rose in 1952 by Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte GmbH.

Above, the whole artwork Please click to enlarge 2002 Ink, gouache, colored pencil on buff etching paper detail at left: Anna's head and gravestone imagery above her head please click images to enlarge please click to enlarge My former pet cockatiel, Elizabeth, seen at upper left of drawing, upside down in the drawing; she since moved to Seattle's Capitol Hill district to live with her sister Rothman.	NO ONE CAME TO SAVE ANNA PLOCKIER UWG Art No. 47 Size: 17 1/4" H x 35 1/8" W 43.8 x 89.4 cm (paper) Framed. Click for background notes detail: Polish Jewish gravestone please click images to enlarge detail of birds seen in right side of the drawing A right side up detail of the peach- faced lovebird seen at lower left of drawing Please click images to enlarge

please click to enlarge The exhibit installation photo (above) showing the framed worked was taken by S.I.U. Carbdonale alumnus (and Segan classmate) Jerry Brozowski at the Pacific Lutheran University Library exhibition, Tacoma, Wash, Oct. 2002. Special thanks to former PLU German lang professor Janet Holmgren for arranging and assisting with this exhibition 32” H x 47 ¾” W 81.2 x 121.2 cm Ink, gouache, colored pencil, linocut, Alex metallic sunglasses with stitched thread.	ITALIAN JEWISH RESISTANCE HERO EUGENIO CURIEL, CASTEL SANT ANGELO, AND MY FLYING CHI OBI JEW-JEW* KENOBI* (GAZED ON BY ALEX FROM ABOVE & BELOW AS HE TRIES TO COMPREHEND THIS ARTWORK) Judischer- Italienischer Widerstandsheld Eugenio Curiel, Burg Sankt Angelo und mein fliegendes Obi Jew-Jew Kenobi (angestarrt von Alex oben & unten wahrend er versucht dieses Kunstwerk zu begreifen) UWG Art No. 48 2002 Please click to enlarge Above - the whole drawing Click for BACKGROUND NOTES

Please click to enlarge The masquerade eye-mask with grotesque Jewish Man	Please click to enlarge detail images Alex below... please click to enlarge Castel S'ant Angelo (Hadrian's Tomb) please click to enlarge Obi Jew-Jew Kenobi (the artists chi)


Ink, colored pencil, gouache on paper with artified mat. The mat includes collaged-on original sketches from Jerusalem, the West Palm Beach & Seattle zoo's, the Seattle waterfront and other sketchbook drawings, as well as drawings done directly on the mat and/or over the old sketches. 2003. Size: 20 1/2" H x 29 1/2" W paper 52 x 74.9 cm (unframed) Above: The entire artwork please click to enlarge detail above - center please click to enlarge	NEU! HENDL WIE NOCHNIE CHICKEN McNUGGETS! HAD RIGHTEOUS GENTILE JOOP WESTERWEEL NOT BEEN EXECUTED BY THE NAZIS, HE MIGHT HAVE ENJOYED CHICKEN McNUGGETS WHILE ON HOLIDAY IN VIENNA! `NEU! Hendl wie noch nie Chicken McNuggets! Ware der gerechte nicht Jude Joop Westerweel nicht von NS-Schergen ermordet worden, so koennte er Jetzt Chicken McNuggets auf urlauf in Wien kosten!` UWG Art No. 49 Background notes detail: bottom left of drawing Please click to enlarge detail: bottom right of drawing Please click to enlarge detail, below: top center of the drawing Please click to enlarge

Drawn from a photo courtesy of the Bundesarchiv, Germany, that I first saw on the website of the US Holocaust memorial Museum. The Nazis murdered 500,000 Roma they hunted down (like Jews) across Europe. Gypsy is now considered a racist, condescending and demeaning term; the preferred term is Roma; other "Gypsies" are known as Sinti. Ink, gouache, colored pencil on drawing paper mounted on board. Size: 32" H x 26" W 81.2 x 66 cm (unframed) please click to enlarge Above: The whole drawing/painting below - detail please click to enlarge	ROMA BOY IN CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR ROMA, HALLE, GERMANY Zigeunerjunge im Nazi Konzentrationslager, Halle, Deutschland Art No. 50 2003 We have been able to establish that more than 90% of so-called native Gypsies are of mixed blood.... The Gypsy question can only be solved when the main body of asocial and good-for-nothing Gypsy individuals of mixed blood is collected together in large labour camps and kept working there, and when the further breeding of this population is stopped once and for all. - Quote from Dr. Robert Ritter, a psychologist and psychiatrist. Appointed Director in 1937 of the Research Centre for Racial Hygiene and Population Biology, Berlin, the quote (above) was from a January 1940 progress report by Ritter. [page 260,. The Gypsies, by Angus Fraser, Blackwell, Oxford UK & Cambridge USA, '92] The bird seen on viewers right (above his left shoulder) was drawn from a photo by Susan Middleton & David Liittschwager & seen in the book Witness - Endangered Species of North America. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA., '94). The bird is a red-cockaded woodpecker; the caption states photographed Feb. 21, 1992 at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississipi

above - the full artwork please click to enlarge below, details, left & right please click to enlarge please click to enlarge Desnos was drawn from a photo of him sleeping in The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos. Translation by Carolyn Forche & William Kulik, Ecco Press, NY 1991. The photo was reproduced courtesy of Jean Loup Charmet.	SORROWS OF LOVE AND THE INTOLERABLE ABSENCE OF POWERFUL EMOTION (LA PATHETIQUE) IN OUR LIVES. (IN MEMORY OF ROBERT DESNOS, HIS LOVE FOR LOVE, WRITING, LIFE, AND THE NEED TO SPEAK OUT WHEN JUSTICE IS SILENCED) LIEBESKUMMER UND DAS UNERTRAGLICHE AUSBLEIBEN DES STARKEN GEFUHLS IM LEBEN (LA PATHETIQUE). (IN MEMORIAM ROBERT DESNOS - LIEBE ZU LIEBE, LEBEN UND LITERATUR UND DER PROTEST ZUR ZEIT EINER VERSTUMMELTEN GERECHTIGKEIT) UWG Art No. 51 2003 India ink, pencil, gouache, colored pencil on paper mounted on wood 23 7/8" H x 36" W 60 x 91.4 cm Framed with a five-sided, wood frame with two different color wood mouldings and decoratively embellished with very old metal plate fasteners. Desnos was renowned through Europe at the time the war began. According to William Kulik, one of the two translators of The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos, Desnos was a French surrealist poet, a novelist, a film, art, record & literary reviewer, a songwriter, a radio playwright and the writer of 3,000 commercials. His fame was so widespread that the young Czech. medical student who helped care for Desnos when Desnos was dying of typhus at the Terezin concentration camp after liberation asked Desnos, on seeing his patients name, if he knew the famous French writer Robert Desnos? As recounted in Ann Weiss's wonderful photograph book The Last Album: Eyes From the Ashes of Auschwitz (2001), Desnos looked up at the student with eyes I will never forget and exclaimed I am Robert Desnos". A Christian by family background, Desnos was born in 1900. Active in anti-Nazi resistance activities, he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp and at Auschwitz. He died of typhus in 1945 at Terezin. My artwork title is taken from Kulik's preface to the Collected Poems book and Desnos own words, as seen in the following excerpt from Kulik's introduction: By the time C'est les bottes des sept lieues* was published, Desnos had fallen desperately in love with Yvonne George, a music-hall singer whose songs, he said, constantly expressed the sorrows of love and the intolerable absence of powerful emotion (la pathetique) in our lives. *C'est les bottes des sept lieues cettes was the title of Desnos first published collection of poems, in 1926. The full title was C est les bottes des sept lieues cettes phrase Je me vois In translation: It is the Seven League Boots That Phrase I See Myself). Further in his preface, Kulik writes that in 1928 Yvonne George was in a Swiss sanitorium dying of tuberculosis.

Full image - above Please click to enlarge Detail - left side Please click images to enlarge Detail - right side	A SONATA IN MEMORY OF CZECH JEWISH COMPOSER ERWIN SCHULHOFF UWG Art No. 52 2004 Ink, colored pencil & gouache on paper Paper size at right: 18 3/4" H x 42.5" W Paper size at left: 16 5/8" H x 42.5" W Erwin Schulhoff, a German speaking Czech, was born in 1894 in Prague. He perished in a Nazi concentration camp in Bavaria, Germany in 1942. The drawing was inspired by a photo published in the NY Times winter 2004 with an attribution to Delta Music; I don't know how Delta Music acquired the a photo of Schulhoff or how and where the original photo was located. Some of the music notes in the right wing (viewers left) were drawn from a reproduction of the title page of the Composition for a Male Chorus by Pawel Haas, "Al S'fod," seen on p. 80 in the book Music in Terezin, 1941-45 (by Joza Karas; Beaufort Books, NY '85). Other musical notes depicted are from Bach, Beethoven, and the Song of the Peabog Soldiers, a concentration camp song that was sung by prisoners in German camps. Haas, also a Czech Jew and a composer, was born in Brno in 1899 and died at Auschwitz on Oct. 17, 1944.


The entire image (above) Please click to enlarge	HAGADAH GINZBURG UWG Art No. 53 2004 22 7/8” h X 30 18” w Ink, gouache, watercolor, colored pencil Depicts the Italian Jewish anti-Fascist intellectual and activist Leone Ginzburg. Click for background text Please click thumbnail detail images to enlarge

27 5/8" H x 20 5/8" W Ink, gouache 2004-2005 Full frame image (above) please click images to enlarge detail images below	Wings Art No. 54 PROTESTANT UNIVERSITY STUDENT SOPHIE SCHOLL, BORN MAY 9, 1921; BEHEADED BY THE GERMAN & AUSTRIAN NAZIS ON FEBRUARY 22, 1943 Sophie Scholl was a German Protestant. She and her brother Hans, also guillotined by the Nazis, were members of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group at the University of Munich, where they posted and tossed out anti-Nazi flyers. Her portrait was drawn from a photo of her taken at age 17 which appears in the book At the Heart of the White Rose, Letters & Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl. (Edited by Inge Jens,Harper & Row, NY, '87).

Please click to enlarge	KING DAVID (AN OLD AND DISABLED JEWISH WAR VETERAN IN A CART, WARSAW, 1937) UWG Art No. 55 2005 Size: Based on a photo by the late photographer Roman VIshniac, taken in the Jewish district of Warsaw. The man had lost his legs in a pogrom in Russia thirty years earlier. A pogrom was a state sponsored, directed or approved act of violence against Jews. The term is commonly used to describe these outbreaks of pillaging, burning (of homes and businesses), rapes of girls and women, and murder, especially as were done in Czarist era Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland by Christian Jew-haters. For many Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, their familiarity with the term "pogrom" has been with the popular movie "Fiddler on the Roof," from the early 1970's. (It's available on VHS and DVD at libraries and video stores.)


[planned]	ZLATA BARSHEWSKYS WOMAN FRIEND AT THE JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED, BIALYSTOK, POLAND Zlata Barshewskys Feundin aus dem Jüdischen Altershei, Bialystok, Polen UWG Art No. 56

[PLANNED]	PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS GREAT-UNCLE LIEBL BARSHEWSKY Porträt des Künstlers Grossonkel Leibl Barshewsky UWG Art No. 57

Please click to enlarge See fourteen slides of the artwork, including digital photos taken in September 2005 when the mosaic was in progress and the drawing was in black & white.	LIFE & DEATH IN THE GHETTO UWG Art No. 58 Mosaic/drawing. August - December, 2005. Mosaic, made from colored glass and ceramic plates, bowls and cups. The drawing media is ink, gouache & colored pencil. The drawing is conservation protected with plexiglass. Size: Three feet x six feet.

Dimensions: Exterior dimensions of the wood frame - 61 inches height The width at bottom of the frame at its widest point - 47 inches Please click to enlarge Above - the frame with border sections constructed from various pieces of wood, photo taken November 2006 Please click to enlarge Above - the drawing in progress early Aug 2007 shows the artist is holding a photocopy enlargement made from the original 1930's photo of Mira and her sister that was loaned by Ithaca College Math Professor Dani Novak. Dan's mother, a late Holocaust survivor, was Mira's sister.	UWG Art No. 59 In progress 2007 MIRA STEINER, A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG JEWISH WOMAN FROM CROATIA, WAS DROWNED BY FASCISTS IN 1941 Please click thumbnails to enlarge As of July 16 (above) 2007 three mosaic sections were completed [pre-grouting stage] having used broken plates, a tile cutting tool, adhesive and hours of work. July and Aug cataract surgeries put new mosaic work on-hold [see Other Segan Art - Judaic - Self Portraits - Open Your Mouth and Say Ahhhhh!]. The section at bottom was made with broken tiles, stones and a nearly fossilized bone I'd picked out of the earth & dirt alongside roads around the Old Walled City of Jerusalem, May 2007. The photos above show the drawing as it looked on Aug 1, 2007 - now about 90% completed - with just a white paper section above Mira's feet and a wihte paper section below her head yet to be drawn.

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