Charlotte Salomon: A Life Interrupted Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a German-Jewish artist whose tragically short life produced one of the most powerful and moving autobiographical works of art in history, Life? or Theater?: Ein Singspiel. Her story is one of resilience, trauma, and artistic brilliance cut short by the horrors of the Holocaust. Early Life and Struggles Born in Berlin in 1917, Charlotte’s early life was marked by profound loss. Her mother, Franziska Grünwald, suffered from depression and ultimately took her own life when Charlotte was eight or nine years old – a fact ini…