© Julia Pirotte
Victoire! Marseille, 8 mai 1945
Artist
Julia Pirotte
(Polen, 1907 - 2000)
Alternate Title
- Fred i Marseille, den 8 maj 1945
- Victory! Marseille, 8 May 1945
Date1945
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsBildmått: 20,5 × 27,2 cm
Passepartout: 40 × 50 cm
Classification
Credit LineDonation 1982 från konstnären
On view
StockholmObject NumberFM 1982 017 005
About the artworkJulia Pirotte was born in Konskowola, a small Jewish town in Poland. She grew up in a nation racked by unrest. In the 1930s, she went to Belgium to study to be a journalist, and also studied photography there. When Germany attacked Belgium, she moved to Marseille, where she established herself as a photographer. The pictures she took there during the rebellion in 1944 have been used widely by news agencies and provide crucial documentation of the liberation of France in the Second World War. Pirotte’s images capture not only the resistance but also the arrival of the allies and the exhumations of those who died in the struggles.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks
Signerad i kulspets på fotografiets baksida, Titel i blyerts på fotografiets baksida, Copyrightstämpel på fotografiets baksida
Selected exhibition history
Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm