Controversey Continues: Swedish Artist Investigated for Use of Holocaust Victims' Ashes

YNET NEWS
By Rabbi Levi Brackman

Artist and his painting, "Memory Works" courtesy of Peru21

POLAND---Polish prosecutors are investigating a Swedish artist's claim that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims to make a painting, an act that could carry a prison term. The artist, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, wrote on the website of the Bryder Gallery in Lund, Sweden, last year that he made a painting using ashes that he took from crematorium furnaces in Majdanek, a former Nazi German death camp located in eastern Poland, on a visit there in 1989. The small painting, named "Memory Works," is made of broad vertical brown and gray strokes of brush that leave an impression of a tight group of people. It could prove very difficult to determine whether von Hausswolff used victims' ashes in the painting or is staging a publicity stunt. [link]