Tim started both to work on the project and to search for a location in Paris to install the sculpture.Īccording to the artist’s wife, Zuka, for quite some time Tim was looking for a spot in Île de la Cité, situated in the heart of Paris, as we can see in these photo and watercolor. One day he reversed the first three letters as if to change without rejecting himself, and it became: TIM.įor many years he worked for L’Express, and also published in Le Monde, Time, Newsweek and the New York Times. He signed his drawings Mitel, short for Mitelberg. De Gaulle decorated them with the War Cross.Īfter the war, he became an illustrator for L’Humanité Dimanche, a supplement of the official organ of the Communist French Party. After June 1941, Mitelberg and 185 other French escapees managed to join Free France in London. With three comrades, he had escaped after 425 kilometers on foot, and found himself in the USSR, where he was again a prisoner, this time of the Russians. Engaged in the French army in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. Louis emigrated to Paris in 1937 to study in the Beaux-Arts. Louis Mitelberg is from Polish-Jewish descent, known as Tim (1919-2002). Louis is a sculptor, political cartoonist, painter. In 1984, the French Government and President François Mitterrand decide to honor the memory of Captain Alfred Dreyfus Jack Lang, Minister of Culture, commissions a sculpture from Tim, Louis Mitelberg. The erecting of monuments and their location can indeed attest to the complex and at times problematic relationship between history, memory and art.Ī “wonderful”, or rather a “full of wandering” example is the Statue “A Tribute to Captain Dreyfus” that you may see today in the charming courtyard of the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris : the MAHJ is a jewish museum located in the 17 th Century mansion, a Private Hôtel de Saint-Aignan.Īlfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most controversial and polarizing political dramas in modern French history.
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