About the artist
Harald Pickert (born in Leitmeritz in 1901) was a painter and graphic artist. He also worked as a publisher and printer. Pickert was arrested by the Nazis in 1939 for his outspoken criticism of the regime and spent six years interned at various concentration camps as a political prisoner before finally being freed in 1945. He reflected on the horrors he had experienced through drawings and sketches, which were not found in his estate until 70 years later. Preserved as part of the estate were a folder of ink drawings, along with other sketches made on scraps of cardboard and butter wrappers. Pickert died in Kufstein in 1983.