Marcel Słodki
Marcel Slodki (; 11 November 18921943/1944) was a Polish painter, graphic artist and stage designer. He was post-impressionist associated with the dadaist movement. He died during World War II, after being arrested in France and sent to the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp . Biography 
Slodki was born to a secular, liberal Jewish family in Łódź (then part of the Russian Empire). His father was a bank director. From 1910 to 1913 Slodki studied in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts and then spent the next year travelling through Europe. He moved to Switzerland in 1914, where for a time he worked with architects designing town plans. He became involved early on with the Dada art movement. He designed the poster for the 1916 opening of Dadaist performance at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. His work was presented there beginning in 1917, and he held his first individual exhibition, also in Zürich, in 1919. From 1921 to 1924 he lived in Germany, where he designed theater sets for the cabaret Die wilde Bühne and worked on the Berlin magazine Die Aktion. Later, he moved to France. His works were shown at several exhibitions, including  (Paris, 1928), an exhibition in Bruges (1933), an exhibition in Warsaw (1934, possibly related to ), Salon d'Automne (Paris, 1937), and an exhibition in London (1938). He married a painter, Macha Boulanger. Following the German invasion and occupation of France, he lived in Brive-la-Gaillarde, first continuing with his public work, even exhibiting it, but eventually going into hiding. He was arrested in 1943 in Paris, but was released or escaped (accounts vary). He hid in woodlands near Paris, and then moved to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Chambéry (then under Italian occupation). After the Germans took control of Chambéry, he was arrested again, on 14 December 1943, and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he died within a year. Works 
His art style is described as post-impressionist. He has been associated with the Dada art movement, as well as the Polish Kapists art movement. His early works were also influenced by Cubism, but most did not survive, as they were destroyed by the artist himself in an act he later regretted. Most of his paintings are landscapes and still lifes, although he created some portraits as well as several paintings of fishermen and circus artists. References

Further reading

J. Sandel: Słodki, Marceli. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg. ): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Band 4: Q–U. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1958, S. 299. M. Wallis-Walfisz: Słodki, Marceli. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg. ): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 31: Siemering–Stephens. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1937, S. 140. External links
Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Marcel Slodki (b. November 8, 1892 in Lodz) by George Mandel-Mantello, First Secretary of the Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland and sent to him in the Drancy transit camp

1892 births
1944 deaths
Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Polish painters of Jewish descent
Jewish artists
Jewish painters
Post-impressionist painters
Dadaists
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
Artists from Łódź