Thread: One of the mendacious claims of the far right is that they want free speech & to protect culture.
In fact they want hate speech to dehumanise minorities & they destroy culture & art. Here’s an overview of some of the murders of artists, that they committed.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1896-1944) was an Austrian woman murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. She even gave art therapy classes to children in a Nazi ghetto at Terezin. This was typical of her love of art & of children.
Abraham Icek Tuschinski (1886-1942) was a Jewish-Dutch businessman & art supporter. His monument is the magnificent Tuschinski theatre in Amsterdam. He was murdered at Auschwitz.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is one of the most important German artists of the 20th C. He was persecuted by the Nazis, his art was declared to be Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). The abuse led him into a cycle of depression such that he took his own life.
Julius Klinger (1876-1942) was a superb Austrian artist & graphic designer. His work is still influential today. As a Jew he was expelled to Minsk & was believed to have been murdered there by the Fascists.
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899-1940) was an important German artist. She suffered from Schizophrenia & the Nazis sterilised her against her will. She was murdered by the far right as part of a Nazi euthanasia program
Samuel J de Mesquita (1868-1944) was a Jewish Dutch graphic designer; one of his students was MC Escher. He, his wife & son were murdered by the Nazis. The parents were murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers, their son at Theresienstadt.
Felix Nussbaum (1904-44), a German Jewish painter, was one of the most important artists of the 20th C. He documented the nihilism & evil of the Far Right. His work brings home the dangers of the Fascist creed. He & his wife were murdered at Auschwitz.
Karl Pärsimägi (1902-42) was an Estonian Fauvist painter & proud Estonian. He was arrested in Paris & moved to Auschwitz. It’s surmised that he was murdered for being gay.
Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) was a German Jewish artist who created a ‘diary’ of autobiographical paintings. Her work is profoundly moving. She was captured in 1943 in France & sent to Auschwitz. She & her unborn child were murdered there.
Other artists were persecuted, attacked, hunted or harassed to death by Fascists. The case of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) is one such. The far right banned most modern art including the greatest artist of the 20th C, Picasso.
The Fascists loved describing Jews, LGBTQI & Roma as ‘degenerate’. Indeed they created an exhibition called degenerate art (Entartete Kunst). Their cognitive dissonance is telling, even today. .@IzzyKamikaze
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Thread: For many this Pride is one of the scariest of modern times. Criminalisation of Trans kids & adults, banning of Pride, media campaigns against LGBT+ ppl, violence & persecution are found from the EU, thru the UK to the US.
I want to show how LGBT+ ppl are heroic.
Willem Arondeus (1894-1943) was a Dutch artist & writer, a proud gay man, a founder member of the Dutch Resistance & Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish lives.
He demonstrated that LGBT+ ppl are not cowards & will not be cowed.
He grew up in Amsterdam. When he was 17 he told his parents that he was gay & they later kicked him out for refusing to hide it (aged 18). To eke out a living he painted, created illustrations & wrote. He discovered in himself a fierce independence.
It amazes me the number of ppl with ‘Christian’ in their bios who seem to be completely unaware of Jesus being Gay. There are gonna be some awkward conversations at the Pearly Gates [John 13:23]*
Happy Pride!
*given that entire ‘churches’ are based on Leviticus & a disputed version of who can shag who, it’s amazing that Christianity overlooks how often JC is shown as Gay for Jonno. Leviticus, BTW, also says it’s AOK to own slaves, sinful to wear cotton-Lycra jocks & eat surf & turf…
Matthew 7:5 has some relevant side-eye
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
The stupidity of ethnic English nationalism really is breathtaking. Europe is not miles away -
the British border is in Ireland [no wonder these tulips tied themselves in knots over it!]. In light of that ignorance, not knowing that GBS is Irish, is relatively minor!
I think that colonial history should be compulsory in English schools. Being a nationalist is the norm in most of Europe. However being an ethnic nationalist, with its emphasis on exclusion, is [to put it mildly] problematic. Ask anyone who has studied the period 1939-45.
Just to be clear Matthew was being humorous & I was agreeing with him. Today I’ve really realised how few ppl actually read threads & jump on the first Tweet with their opinion. Having said that I doubt anyone will read this 😉 .@DrMatthewSweet
Thread: To celebrate Pride Month I put together a celebration of LGBT+ artists & writers who have been central to Irish culture & our sense of who we are. Given past persecution it’s impressive how important they have been or are presently!
Mary Dorcey (b 1950) is a poet, writer & member of Aosdána. Her work is critically acclaimed & moving. She has campaigned for LGBTQI & has provided a voice for the community through activism & words
‘I have seen mad women in my time
- I have never seen them mad enough.’ (1991)
Here’s an overview of my own art. It’s all about love, hope & happiness.
Thread: I love using bold vibrant colours, pattern & clarity of line in my ink on paper drawings. Sometimes they look deceptively simple, but if you zoom in you can see why they can take up to eight hours to draw. Here’s some more drawings
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Wild Orchids (2021) | Original ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan
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Japanese Ground Orchids (2021) | Original ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan
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