Nearly 100 years ago, Russians were killing Ukrainians, imposing their political agenda, & attempting to destroy Ukraine independence.                        History is repeating itself today.
At the start of WWII, the Germans overran Ukraine creating a second catastrophe to bee ndured by the civilian population.
Artist Nadia Werbitzky’s paintings recall her life as a young child  living in Ukraine during these troubled times as first Stalin imposed his brutal regime on the Ukrainians, creating a man-made famine, then Hitler’s Nazi regime overran the country in WWII. As a student at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf after the war, Nadia developed her poignant painting style drawing on German Expression, Bauhaus Modernism, and other European abstract styles from the early part of the twentieth century. These styles were all a part of the vibrant Germany art community totally crushed when Hitler came to power in 1933.
Nadia’s mother, Teodora Verbitskaya, wrote an extensive memoir covering this horrific period in Ukrainian history,1927 through 1945. The memoir gives a one family account of the era that resonates in a global way. Paintings and written dialogue are mutually supportive, vastly educational and exceptionally artistic.