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Petr Kien was born on 1 January, 1919 in Slovakia, is a Jewish artist and poet. Discover Petr Kien's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 25 years old?

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Age 25 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 1 January, 1919
Birthday 1 January
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Date of death October 1944, in Auschwitz, Nazi Germany
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Nationality Slovakia

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1919

Peter Kien (1 January 1919, in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia – October 1944, in Auschwitz, Nazi Germany) was a Jewish artist and poet active at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

He died at the age of twenty-five.

The name of Franz Peter Kien, a prominent figure among many outstanding artists imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto during World War II, is usually associated with the opera The Emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann.

In addition to the libretto of that opera, Kien left significant artwork, poetry, and plays.

Kien spent his first 10 years in Varnsdorf, an industrial town near the Czech-German border.

During the financial crisis his family moved to Brno.

1936

In 1936, Kien graduated with honors from a German high school.

The certificate contains special notes on his remarkable skills in writing and drawing.

The same year, Kien enrolled in Prof. Willy Novak’s class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in the graphic design school Officina Pragensis under Prof. Hugo Steiner-Prag.

1939

In 1939, after the Nuremberg Laws were enforced, Kien was expelled from the Academy, but continued to work at the Officina Pragensis under Prof. Jaroslav Švab). He started to teach art at the Vinohrady Synagogue. Married to Ilse Stranska in 1940, he tried to emigrate with his family.

1941

In December 1941, Kien was deported to Terezin.

Over a thousand drawings, sketches, designs and paintings originate from his pre-Terezin years.

Consigned to the drafting room of the Technical Department in Terezin, Kien produced numerous portraits, landscapes, drawings and genre sketches.

His artwork radiates light, hope and warmth.

By contrast, his writings of this period are mostly tragic and hopeless.

In Terezin, Kien's social satirical play Marionettes, staged by Gustav Schorsch.

was performed 25 times.

Gideon Klein set Kien's poetic cycle Plague to music.

His other plays written in the ghetto include Medea, Bad dream and On the Border.

They found their way to the Wiener Library in London, but were never published and never performed.

Between his arrival to Terezin in 1941 and his deportation to Auschwitz, Kien was officially the director of the Technical Drawing Office of the Jewish Self Administration.

Using stolen paper, he sketched many depictions of living conditions in the Terezin ghetto.

These works are among the most important works documenting that Terezin was a concentration camp rather than the model Jewish settlement the Nazis portrayed to outsiders.

His works accurately reflect that its inhabitants were confined in inhuman conditions and treated severely.

1943

Kien also wrote the libretto to Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a one-act chamber opera that was composed in (originally on the back of a deportation list due to a lack of paper) and rehearsed in Terezin between 1943 and 1944 but never performed there.

1944

On 16 October 1944, Kien was deported to Auschwitz with his parents and his wife in the final transport in October 1944.

He died from disease soon after his arrival.

None of the others survived.

1975

It was first performed in 1975 in Amsterdam and was recorded for Decca in Leipzig in 1990.

2012

An English Touring Opera production was performed at the Royal Opera House in London and toured England in 2012.

He developed many works and he loved art.