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Apr 5, 2016 · Fantl was deported to Auschwitz, along with his wife and son, and murdered by the Nazis in January 1945. A Czech worker later smuggled his works out of the ghetto and concealed them in a wall. (Credit: Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem)
Jan Fantl. Producer: Spartan. Born in Prague in 1954, Jan Fantl comes from a family of active film industry professionals. His Grandfather was the youngest producer for 20th Century Fox in Europe, and his father, Thomas Fantl, was a well-known TV and Film director.
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- Jan Fantl
- Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
- Abstract
- Pavel Fantl and The Art of Satire
- The Materiality and Survival of Holocaust Art
- Conclusion
From the very beginning of Holocaust documentation, drawings and other pictorial material have been considered important “victim sources” with which “to write the history of everyday life and death.”1 Visual sources were not only meant to supplement written testimonies, but also offer insight into cultural and social aspects of camp and ghetto life...
One of the most arresting graphic narratives Pavel Fantl created in Terezín is Metamorphosis (1944). The four-panel image presents the physical deterioration of a veteran Theresienstadt prisoner, from the moment he arrives in November 1941 through the successive winters of 1942, 1943, and 1944. With a running caption “Vánoce člena Ak v Terezíně” (C...
As the examples of Fritta and others show, drawing testimonial art could put the artist in danger of torture and deportation to Auschwitz. Some destroyed their work because they feared the Nazis would find it and kill them in retaliation. Alfred Kantor, a veteran of Terezín, Auschwitz and Schwarzheide, destroyed most of his drawings while in Auschw...
Nearly eighty years on, Pavel Fantl’s drawings remain a relevant commentary on the Nazi regime’s cruelty and absurdity. Although produced clandestinely, his satirical portrayal of life in the ghetto could be read as a continuation of the interwar democratic practices in which the liberty to criticize the establishment was seen as the basic right of...
Jan Fantl (born 11 June 1954 in Prague) is a German film producer. Biography. Jan Fantl is a son of director Thomas Fantl. After Thomas Fantl was barred from working in 1957, he moved with his family to Germany, where he was raised.
Jan Fantl. Producer: Spartan. Born in Prague in 1954, Jan Fantl comes from a family of active film industry professionals. His Grandfather was the youngest producer for 20th Century Fox in Europe, and his father, Thomas Fantl, was a well-known TV and Film director.
Jan Fantl is known as an Co-Producer, Producer, Executive Producer, Line Producer, and Co-Executive Producer. Some of their work includes Tristan & Isolde, A Sound of Thunder, Spartan, The Musketeer, Riding the Bullet, No Good Deed, Beyond the Sea, and Stander.
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