This book is dedicated to works by Michael Müller (*1970)
commenting on four paintings by Gerhard Richter (*1932) entitled
"Birkenau"; they aim to reappraise the cruel historical fact of
Auschwitz II/Birkenau extermination camp in various artistic forms.
Direct as the critical comments on Richter may be, they are
accompanied by many less conspicuous, quieter, one might even say
wounded works by Müller, which were shown at the Museum im
Kulturspeicher Würzburg in 2022/23 and will be exhibited at St.
Matthew’s Church in Berlin’s Kulturforum in spring 2023 to
coincide with the publication of this book. The thematic focus of
both exhibitions is the so-called "Sonderkommando", a work
detachment of selected Jewish prisoners from 1942 to 1944/45, who
were forced to prepare for and clear up after the extermination of
their fellow human beings under SS supervision and facing a
constant threat to their lives. The book documents the key works of
this demanding artistic investigation by Michael Müller and
contextualises them in a detailed essay by art historian Lukas
Töpfer (*1988).
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