Deborah Pappenheimer

Deborah Pappenheimer is the daughter of Bea Karp, an Artist and Senior Lecturer at Iowa State University in the Art and Visual Culture Department.

"My mother's experiences as a survivor had politicized me at an early age. I knew from an early age my grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. Over the years, I have tried to sort out what happened and why. Though many questions remain, as an artists and a daughter of a Holocaust survivor I knew I wanted to create a series of works that related to my mother's history. These included larger acrylic paintings, small intimate mono-prints and a series of collage mixed media paintings that include photocopies of my grandparents' letters as well as other ephemera related to my mother's experience. I have exhibited these series in various venues and am please to share some of them with a wider audience." (p.11)

Karp, Bea and Deborah Pappenheimer. My Broken Doll: A Memoir of Survival of the Vichy Regime. Blurb, © 2014. Artwork created by Deborah Pappenheimer © 2021.