Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life

<p><b><i>Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life</i></b></p><p>Inspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler’s rise to power in 1938 Charlotte’s first place prize is denied because she is a Jew her enrollment annulled. After Kristallnacht she is sent from Berlin into exile with her grandparents.</p><p>When Charlotte’s grandmother leaps to her death her Old World grandfather shocks her with the family secret a legacy of female suicides. She struggles against her grandfather’s insistence that suicide not art is her destiny too.</p><p>Haunted by the encroaching terror of the Third Reich and the threat of psychological disintegration Charlotte clings to her determination to become a serious modernist painter to complete her monumental work “Life? Or Theater?” and get it into safekeeping in a race against time before capture by the Nazis.</p>