94.9.1. C.4324
University of
Wisconsin
410 S. 3rd Street
River Falls, WI 54002-5001
Dr. Stephen Feinstein,
Chairman, History Department
Dear Mr.
Feinstein!
1. Excuse me for my
very poor english.
2. Excuse me for
beeing late with my answer for You! It was Sommer.
You asked me in
connection of my art of Holocaust.
I think I am not
interested for You. I painted never the Holocaust. I painted between 1984-1987 a serie: Old Jewish Cemeteries".
About 60 oil pictures about 60-100
centimeter large. Nowdays there are
around in Budapest, by summlers and in hungarian museums. On of them is in the
Yad Vashem. The serie based on a photo serie I have made between 1974-1983 around in Hungary and
Rumania. I made about 2400 photos in
old jewish cemeteries. It was my first meeting with this wunderful culture, I
am an active catholic.
The history of my
photos. I made at that time money on socio-photos in little hungaryan villages.
In every three month 3 day juorney with a big black car from a Cultural
Research Institut. My boss was a jewish
girl. She was interested in jewish cultural relic, /not on official chanel/ so
along the way we stopped beside the cemeteries to see them.
In 1982 we
decided with a friend of mine to make a
photoalbum on this subject.
He had a serie from
Czechoslovakia and Poland. The greater hungarian Art Publishing House : "Corvina" made with us a
contract, and it paid the fee to. But the years have gone and was not edited the book. By the end it was
issued in 1993:
" Tanú ez a kőhalom,/ This Cairn
is Witness Today..." Issued by: Új Mandátum Publishing House, /adress:
1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa u 6. Hungary/ in hungarian and english . 120 black
and white photos, 22x 24 cm, 149 page, 680 forint, preface: an essay in
connection the subject and art history written by an chief rabbi.
You have now reading
the all story. Please writen me if You
are interesting in any reproduction. What? Reproductions on painting
or photos on cemeteries, or a book?
But there are not in
connection of the Holocaust.
Sincerely: