Sheet №4. From the series "Victims of Terror"

ID:: 1168
Inventory number:: Гр-481 КН-36063
Type:: Graphics
Material:: paper
Techniques:: etching
Dimensions:: 49x31 cm
Author:: Oleksandr Holoshchuk; Oleksandr Viktorovych Holoshchuk is a Ukrainian theater artist and graphic artist. Born on January 18, 1946 in the village of Nyzhnya Krynka, Donetsk region, he is a member of the National Union of Ukrainian Artists (1992). Holoshchuk graduated from the Odesa Theater and Art School (1971; teachers: V. Kara-Giaur, and T. Kozlova). He was the production designer of the cartoons "Malachite Box", "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain", and "Stone Flower" (1974-1977). In 1980-1983, he was a prop designer for the Donetsk Youth Theater and production designer of the play "Pinocchio" by O. Tolstoy (1982). Holoshchuk participated in art exhibitions starting in 1978. He created posters, playbills for art exhibitions, performances of the A. Solovyanenko Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In easel graphics, he leans towards philosophical and poetic generalizations of national and world history. Among his works are “Don Quixote”, “Eclipse” (both 1986), “Wooden Doll”, “Petrashovites. The Price of Truth” (both 1987), “Man and Nature” (1990); the graphic cycles “War and Music” (1988-2003), and “Word” (2003-2004).
Date of creation:: 1983
Preservation:: complete preservation
Location:: unknown
Provenance:: Purchased from the artist through the Donetsk Art and Production Combine; Act No. 3130 dated 02/19/1985.
Date of record to the inventory book:: 25.02.1985

Item description from the inventory book:

A dynamic intersection of bands with text and with images of tormented people in the openings of boarded-up freight cars. Emaciated people — in groups and alone; separately — faces of people, hands. Text at the top: In January 1942, from the POW camp in the city of Mariupol sick prisoners of war were loaded into 18 freight cars and taken to Sartana station with inscriptions: Approach to the cars is strictly forbidden. Contagious sick. Then, in spaced lines: the cars were / tightly sealed / and in them / frozen / 1,500 people. Under the image on the right — the author's surname, date, signature; on the left — inscription: Series "Victims of Terror" etching No. 4 28×49 cm. The sheet is in a white frame, under glass.

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