![]() ![]() The exhibition, on view through June 18, traces Krug's investigations into her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany and explores her creative process, which combines illustration and collage with found objects, historical documents and vintage photographs. ![]() Krug's graphic novel and her illustrations for the graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's " On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" are the focus of the recently opened " Nora Krug: Belonging" at the Norman Rockwell Museum. German American Illustrator Nora Krug pauses during a recent press tour of her exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum JENNIFER HUBERDEAU - THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE My HEIMAT is an echo, a forgotten word once called into the mountains. "And yet, the longer I've lived away from Germany, the more elusive my idea of my identity becomes. " Krug writes in " Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home," her autobiographical graphic novel. "The longer I've lived in my Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn, the more I find myself scavenging American thrift stores for the green-stemmed Riesling glasses, the vine-branch corkscrews and the cuckoo clocks I would have never have thought to buy in Germany. ![]() Where: The Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge What: This exhibition traces German American illustrator Nora Krug's investigations into her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany, the basis for her autobiographical graphic novel, "Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home" and explores her creative process, including her most recent work, the graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." ![]()
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