Hiding From The Nazis: The Art of Johannes Kunst

Although an artistic survey, this exhibition catalog emphasizes Johannes Kunst’s life during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands (1940–45), when he and his brother were hidden in the attic of their grandparents’ country home to spare them from deportation to Germany as slave laborers. At war’s end, Kunst and his family emigrated to the US, where he studied art, worked in design, and produced a body of mixed-media work that pays homage to his influences (Paul Klee, Max Ernst, CoBrA), but with a distinction born from extraordinary experience.