Monument to Viktor Ullmann, 2024, 500 x 500 x 50 cm, clay, stone, uranium glass.
Memorial to Viktor Ullmann.
Viktor Ullmann
Czech composer of Jewish origin.
His work is considered the pinnacle of Czech music in the first half of the 20th century.
Born – January 1, 1898, Těšín, Austria-Hungary.
He studied with Arnold Schonberg and Alois Hába.
He was an excellent pianist, conductor and music composer.
In 1928, he worked as the head of the opera theater in Ústí nad Labem.
In September 1942, he was deported with his family and children to Terezín, where he became involved in an illegal artistic life.
For example, he wrote the opera The Emperor of Atlantis or The Denial of Death here
On October 17, 1944, he was murdered in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.
Memorial to Viktor Ullmann.
Memorial to Viktor Ullmann.