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Dr. Batya Brutin, Director of the Shoah Studies Program at Beit Berl Academic College in Israel, about this particular painting: “Werner Horvath uses the famous photograph of Anne Frank reading a book as a symbol of the tight relationship between Anne and her diary. In his painting Anne’s image emerges from a colorful surrealistic landscape while the book describes black and white bold, naked and emaciated children’s figures. As a result, Anne Frank becomes the symbol for all the innocent children murdered in the Holocaust.”
(In “Anne Frank in the artists eyes”, Peter Wilhelm Art Project, Budapest 2009, ISBN 978-963-06-8114-8).
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