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Sieg Maandag
Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) is seven years old when he is released from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His father was killed there, his mother survived camp Beendorf and was reunited with him. A photo of Sieg walking along a row of bodies in the liberated Bergen-Belsen on May 9, 1945, shocked the world when it appeared in Life magazine. Sieg comes from a family of diamonds. After the war he lived a rich life. He learns the craft of diamond, travels the world, falls in love, sings in nightclubs, paints hundreds of paintings and makes ceramics. He also becomes a father and joins an ashram, a Hindu community. This book focuses on the paintings and ceramics of Sieg Monday. The work cannot be seen apart from the trauma of Bergen-Belsen. His art is disturbing and at the same time wholesome. Like all good art, the paintings and ceramics also convince the viewer who is not familiar with...
