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"The look of F. and A. Brauner") is the title of the exhibition that will be inaugurated in the room José Nicolás Almansa del. Museum of the UMU (Artillery Barracks), on Monday, May 15 at 8:00 p.m., which will remain open to the public until June 2, and its curator is Professor Encarna Nicolás Marín.
In 1938, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, Françoise and Alfred Brauner, a marriage of international brigaders who assisted in health and pedagogical tasks, made a discovery in a Catalan school that would change their lives: a lot of drawings made by children in which They expressed how they had lived the tragic events that were happening.
The impact of this finding prompted them to embark on a large-scale initiative: to collect drawings from all Catalan schools around three themes: "My life before the war", "What I have seen of the war" and "As I see my Life after the war ".
Subsequently, they would expand the material to many of the civil conflicts of the twentieth century: Japan, Vietnam, Algeria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya ... To get documentation consisting of more than 10,000 drawings.
The drawings are intended to promote debate and reflection on how to view contemporary conflicts and the Rights of Man, and especially children.
The exhibition is part of the EVE project of the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche and the UNESCO's Program for the Education of Children in Homelessness.
Alfred Brauner, a former director of the Educational Treatment Centers, and Françoise Brauner, a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and medical director of the Educational Treatment Centers for mentally handicapped children and adolescents with multiple disabilities, worked with child victims of war Civil Spanish and with children persecuted by Nazism.
Both fought for peace through the dissemination of these images.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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