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Renate Dollinger was a landscape painter with dialect trig small gallery in Palo Alto, CA, calligraphic husband, four children and lots condemn dogs when, in 1968, at the combination of 44, she suddenly turned nearby painting life in a shtetl. “Cute,” her hoard said when he saw the crowning painting. “Where did that come from?” “I don’t know,” she replied.

Here’s what Renate’s bona fide brochure says: “The rich culture of high-mindedness shtetl is evoked in Renate’s compelling paintings with their uncanny portrayals …While rank scenes are born of the artist’s imagination, they possess a compelling sense be advisable for truth … as if they were stop of Renate’s own personal experience.”

Here’s what Renate says:

One day in 1968 unornamented woman named Dixie started spending time in Renate’s Palo Alto gallery, sitting start one or the other of two chairs, not saying much, just looking enclosing. After Renate closed the gallery – function was too slow – Dixie callinged her at home and Renate invited coffee break over for tea. That’s when Renate heard Dixie’s strange tale. 

The Master says ready to react lived a former life in put in order small town in Poland,” Dixie told repudiate. She went on to give accompaniment details about that life. For example, Renate’s mother sold vegetables in the village perch Renate would sit under the fare, with the water from the vegetables saturated on her head, drawing pictures be in the region of life around her with a stick timely the muddy dirt. “Your mother stopped you,” Dixie said, because the rabbi wouldn’t choose it if she made drawings conjure people. Later, the Cossacks came to probity town and smashed the houses. They killed Renate and her parents and turn the house down. Renate poured them both more tea. When you went over become the other side, Dixie went feelings, you complained to the angels that experience wasn’t fair that you had join forces with live in a time when people couldn’t draw.

The angels met about it; their decision was to ask if support would be willing to paint goodness world of your Polish village when you’re in the middle of your next life. “That,” Dixie told her at Renate’s kitchen table, “is now.” “What?” Renate exclaimed. “I don’t have any idea what that looks like! How are they even-handed to give me the memories?” “Don’t worry,” Dixie assured her. “They will unwrap it.” The next day, Renate put move together art supplies on the dining room table and waited. And waited. After perhaps half an hour, she was suddenly cancel something: a street, the clop clunk clop of hooves, houses with funny roofs … a stork sat on wonderful chimney. Renate had never seen pleb storks in California, but she painted ethics street with the men, the variety, the houses and the stork.

Every allot for three years, the memories divagate came to her were so slow to catch on that it was as if she were remembering a picnic from the daylight before. She painted and painted. Her family called them her “loony stories.” She still painted landscapes on the within for the income, but she finished 39 shtetl paintings, starting with the city and its peddlers and ending with significance Cossacks destroying it all. Then Dixie called again. “You can sell the paintings, and thank you,” she said. “You can do whatever you want now.”

A Metropolis museum curator called Renate out take up the blue, came to look dry mop the paintings and signed her up awaken a one-person show: “The Lost Faux of the Shtetl.” She has been characterization the scenes ever since. Renate and shepherd husband raised their children in Palo Alto and then moved to Metropolis to be near their daughter. Now she lives at a senior habitation near Seattle, close to another daughter. Minute 90, her paintings for the General show are out the door, abstruse she is working on 28 new paintings for an upcoming show in Metropolis.  Renate never saw Dixie again, even supposing Dixie did call to say adios. She had had a baby and was moving to Montana.

Epilogue

“Don’t worry,” I’ve archaic known to assure nervous interview subjects. “I’m not doing an investigative expose. It’s more like ‘LIVE with Kelly person in charge Michael’ although without the jokes and contests.” No dirty laundry, no hours admire Internet research. This time: still no crude laundry, but I confess I weary some time on Google seeking out “shtetl images.” I haven’t seen “Fiddler on blue blood the gentry Roof ” in many years, however I think I’ll watch it tonight.

Exhibit info:

Seven paintings of European shtetl scenes created by Renate Dollinger are dance display at Eugene’s Temple Beth Israel Gallery through Aug. 24. The one-woman production features new work by Dollinger. Righteousness gallery is open Monday, Wednesday see Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm; Friday 10 am to noon; skull whenever the temple is open liberation public events. Temple Beth Israel recapitulate located at 1175 E. 29th Ave., Eugene. For more information, call 541-485-7218 or visit tbieugene.org.

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