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Rudolph von Ripper: artist eyewitness to Nazi terror

May 16, 2018 by Sian Mackay 1 Comment

Eyewitness artists’ accounts of brutality in Nazi concentration camps are extremely rare. Sian Mackay describes her discovery of Rudolph von Ripper’s forgotten portfolio, work that deserves to stand alongside the art of his contemporaries Otto Dix, George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz.

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