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Mona von Wittlage

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22/04/2026

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19/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
26 x 32 x 3,5 cm
2026

The TEXT transcript in braille in this work is an extract from a letter written by Georgy Halpern, an 8 year-old Jewish refugee in the Izieu children's shelter in Nazi-occupied France to his father in May 1943. Less than one year later, Georgy was murdered in Auschwitz:
[...]
je suis bien arrivé a Izieu il fait très beau ici a Izieu et ici c'est joli. On fait la sieste tout les jours on et sur la montagne. chez maman il doi fair froid a hauteville je mamuse bien et je suis en bonne santé et si tu peux envoi moi un cahier S.V.P. je t'embrasse de tout mon coeur.
GEORGY

This series of artworks is anchored in the brief, luminous lives of the children of the Izieu foster home — 44 children arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944, deported and murdered.
Light and shadow take on the role of co-authors: they generate shifting silhouettes, doubling, erasing or resurrecting details as the viewer moves around the frame. The transparency of the glass and the relief of the gel turn the image into a living threshold between past and present. These works do not reconstruct the tragedy of Izieu; they acknowledge the impossibility of doing so. Instead, they hold space for the children’s presence — fleeting, delicate, yet insistently returning.
As the series expands, each new painting becomes another fragment of a dispersed archive: a gesture of care that preserves not only faces but voices, not only images but the intimate human warmth of the letters themselves. Together, the works form a contemporary memorial in which visibility, touch, and time converge — a quiet, glowing reminder that memory’s task is never complete.

For more information (in French), visit:
https://www.memorializieu.eu/.../histoir.../le-6-avril-1944/

For more information on my work as an artist, visit:
monavonwittlage.com
🎨

17/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
26 x 32 x 3,5 cm
2026

The TEXT transcript in braille in this work is an extract from a letter written by a Jewish child refugee in the Izieu children's shelter in Nazi-occupied France to his father in May 1943:
[...] il y a des grandes montagnes et le vilage est trés jolie il y a beaucoup des fleurs et des arbres et il y a beaucoup des fermes on va des foit se promenai a brenier-cordon la maison est tres belles on va cherche des mûr noirs est blanche est rouge je t'embrasse de tout mon cœur. [...]

This series of artworks is anchored in the brief, luminous lives of the children of the Izieu foster home — 44 children arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944, deported and murdered.
Light and shadow take on the role of co-authors: they generate shifting silhouettes, doubling, erasing or resurrecting details as the viewer moves around the frame. The transparency of the glass and the relief of the gel turn the image into a living threshold between past and present. These works do not reconstruct the tragedy of Izieu; they acknowledge the impossibility of doing so. Instead, they hold space for the children’s presence — fleeting, delicate, yet insistently returning.
As the series expands, each new painting becomes another fragment of a dispersed archive: a gesture of care that preserves not only faces but voices, not only images but the intimate human warmth of the letters themselves. Together, the works form a contemporary memorial in which visibility, touch, and time converge — a quiet, glowing reminder that memory’s task is never complete.

For more information (in French), visit:
https://www.memorializieu.eu/.../histoir.../le-6-avril-1944/

For more information on my work as an artist, visit:
monavonwittlage.com
🎨

14/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
26 x 32 x 3,5 cm
2026

The TEXT transcript in braille in this work is an extract from a letter to his mum written by Georgy Halpern, one out of 44 arrested children on 6 April 1944 by the Gestapo in the Izieu children's shelter in Nazi-occupied France, deported and assassinated in Auschwitz concentration camp:
ma chère maman
On va au rhône se benier tous les dimenches et on voit les pecheurs qui peche [...]

This series of artworks is anchored in the brief, luminous lives of the children of the Izieu foster home — 44 children arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944, deported and murdered.
The figures rendered in layers of Night-Glow Gel and suspended behind glass, appear only partially in daylight. Their presence is fragile, almost tentative — as if resisting full disclosure. Yet in darkness, they softly illuminate themselves, reversing the usual logic of perception. What history obscures, the night reveals. What the eye overlooks, time insists upon.

For more information (in French), visit:
https://www.memorializieu.eu/.../histoir.../le-6-avril-1944/

For more information on my work as an artist, visit:
monavonwittlage.com
🎨

13/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
32 x 26 x 3,5 cm
2025

The image shows the children of the Izieu foster home, whose lives were brutally ended in 1944. Their outlines, barely visible by day and glowing softly in darkness, seem to hover between disappearance and return. The Night-Glow Gel transforms light into a form of time: the past reappears only when everything else fades, like memory that refuses extinction.
The Braille text, transcribed from a letter written by one of the children to his mother shortly before the Gestapo raid, restores a tender human voice to what history reduced to numbers. Its tactile script reminds us that remembrance is not only visual; it must also be felt. The work thus merges material fragility with moral endurance — a quiet, luminous elegy where vision yields to empathy, and where light becomes the last form of resistance against oblivion.

For more information (in French), visit:
https://www.memorializieu.eu/.../histoir.../le-6-avril-1944/

For more information on my work as an artist, visit:
monavonwittlage.com
🎨

12/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
26 x 32 x 3,5 cm
2026
The TEXT written in braille in this work is an extract from birthday wishes by Esther Benassayag to Sarah-Suzanne Szulklapper, two children out of 44 arrested on 6 April 1944 by the Gestapo in the Izieu children's shelter in Nazi-occupied France, deported and assassinated in Auschwitz concentration camp:
"Chère Suzanne,
Je t'écris ce petit mot pour te faire plaisir à l'honneur de ton anniversaire que tu retrouve tes parents et que la guerre finisse..."
When Ester wrote these words of hope to Sarah-Suzanne, her parents had already been deported and killed.

This series of works is anchored in the brief, luminous lives of the children of the Izieu foster home — 44 children arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944, deported and murdered.
For more information (in French):
https://www.memorializieu.eu/histoire/histoire-pourquoi-des-enfants-juifs-a-izieu/le-6-avril-1944/

For more information on my art work, visit:
monavonwittlage.com

10/04/2026

Les enfants d'Izieu
Night-Glow Gel on paper, glass, frame, light and shadow
42 x 32,5 x 3,5 cm
2026

This series brings together several works, each one anchored in the brief, luminous lives of the children of the Izieu foster home — 44 children arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944, deported and murdered.
The artworks shift remembrance from a visual register to a tactile, bodily one. Memory becomes something that must be touched, not simply seen.
For more information:
https://www.memorializieu.eu/histoire/histoire-pourquoi-des-enfants-juifs-a-izieu/le-6-avril-1944/

monavonwittlage.com

05/12/2025

The Wave 🌊🎨
Graphite on paper
100 x 70 cm
2025
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