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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. First Edition. A sixyearold girl sits for a pastel portrait by an unknown immigrant artist Fifty years later he asks her to write his storyINTO THE LIGHT is a profound visual story of hope courage and healing in the face of evil It relates the epic life journey of Kalman Aron as he emerges from the ashes of the Holocaust to explore the nature of humankind his own humanity and the mystery of life all on canvasBorn in Riga Latvia in 1924 Kalman Aron began drawing at age three At seven he had his first gallery show of drawings which sold out on opening day The Latvian president commissioned the boy to paint his official portrait and arranged for Aron to attend Rigas Academy of Fine Arts Three years later in 1941 the Nazis invaded Latvia massacring many thousands of Jews including his parentsOver the course of four years he was imprisoned in seven different camps Aron became an astute observer of human nature he drew portraits of guards who sometimes paid him with morsels of food that helped him not starve to death After the war he was admitted to the Vienna Fine Arts Academy where he received his Masters in Fine Art then left Europe to settle in Los Angeles in 1949Kalman Arons early postwar pictures darkly project Holocaust horrors then in the slow course of healing and freeing himself from his past Arons work gains poise and an inner perspective that radiates new and everchanging vitality He becomes wellknown for his portraits vibrant landscapes and intriguing studies of people in his unique style psychological realism His work catches the attention of Hollywood celebrities and connoisseurs alike and commissions arrive from such notables as Ronald Reagan Henry Miller and Andr Previn. Seller Inventory # DADAX1555953859
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