Internees

Richard became particularly aware of the Nazi concentration camps through his friendship and correspondence with one of his patrons, Sydney Schiff. This painting is one of two Richard did out of his imagination in response to the what he learned about the plight of Jewish people on the continent during the war. The other one, "From Dachau", is illustrated below.

“Since I last wrote I have painted another very small work, or rather a study, of Jews in a concentration camp. The painting of it is almost like a watercolour, transparent and no solid white used, except for the white ground on which it is painted, and since this little effort I have been reading Feuchtwanger’s ‘The Devil in France’ being his experiences in concentration camps during the first six months of the war, and I felt I had got very much the feeling into my painting of some of the men he describes."