Study Area
In addition to the three exhibition levels, other spaces are available to our visitors where they can expand their knowledge. The Study Area on the first exhibition level is one of these.
The Study Area is a space equipped with variable showcases that make it possible to stage small, specialist exhibitons, thus making an additional contribution to the discourse on current issues related to Jewish cultural history. Items from our continuously growing collection can also be displayed here in detail on an intimate scale.
Study Area
In addition to the three exhibition levels, other spaces are available to our visitors where they can expand their knowledge. The Study Area on the first exhibition level is one of these.
The Study Area is a space equipped with variable showcases that make it possible to stage small, specialist exhibitons, thus making an additional contribution to the discourse on current issues related to Jewish cultural history. Items from our continuously growing collection can also be displayed here in detail on an intimate scale.
Samuel Bak, Bird, around 1990, Photo: Jewish Museum Munich
May 16 – October 15, 2023 | Study Area Level 1
THERE IS STILL LIFE
The painter Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak was born in Wilna in 1933 and survived the Shoah by being smuggled out of the ghetto by his parents, who repeatedly hid him. His mother eventually fled with him via Łódź and Berlin to Landsberg in Bavaria. At the age of only twelve, he declared his profession as "painter - artist" when registering at the DP camp in Landsberg am Lech. In 1948, he managed the still illegal crossing to Israel.
The Jewish Museum Munich received one of his characteristic still lifes as a donation. It will be the focus of a presentation that will also shed light on the life of Samuel Bak.
An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Munich.