'Jack Boul: A Conversaton With the Artist'

Holocaust Museum LA presents “Jack Boul: A Conversation With the Artist,” a discussion with the American artist about his powerful Holocaust monoprint series, Wednesday, June 9, at 11 a.m.

American Jewish soldier Boul was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945 and stationed at a German Prisoner of War camp near Pisa. After the war, Boul studied at the Cornish School of Art and then American University, where he went on to become a professor of art. He began exhibiting in 1951 in both group and solo shows. Works by Boul have been acquired by the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection. His paintings, sculptures and monoprints have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Mint Museum of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Boul’s Holocaust monoprint series was based on government photographs of Nazi atrocities that he saw as a soldier. Deeply affected, he created a series of 17 monoprints depicting stark images of Holocaust victims, capturing the loss, desperation and horror while memorializing the victims. First exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, the monoprints were donated to Holocaust Museum LA in 2008.

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Holocaust Museum LA is the first survivor-founded Holocaust museum in the United States. Since 1961, the museum has provided free Holocaust education to students and visitors from across Los Angeles, the United States and the world, fulfilling the mission of the founding Holocaust survivors to commemorate, educate and inspire. The museum is open seven days a week; and because the founding survivors insisted that no visitors ever be turned away from learning about the Holocaust for lack of an entry fee, museum admission is always free.

On Oct. 14, 2010, Holocaust Museum LA opened the doors to its permanent home in Pan Pacific Park. The museum building, designed by acclaimed architect Hagy Belzberg, has received many architectural awards, including LEED Gold Certification, AIA Awards for Architecture and Interior Architecture, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission Design Honor Award and the Green Building Design Award. https://holocaustmuseumla.org/