About

Since 2015 Jan Schüler reflects in his paintings the social and political circumstances in which he grew up. For him, this was first and foremost a confrontation with the National Socialism in Germany between 1933 and 1945. In 2016 he painted a series of prisoners of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, "Schwarze Blumen" ("Black Flowers"), based on photos taken by the camp photographer Wilhelm Brasse. More paintings in this series are the diptych "Deutsches Stillleben" ("German Still Life"), tin cans of the cyanide-based poison gas Zyklon B, and …