In 1943, she entrusted her collection of paintings to a friend. She is remembered for her autobiographical series of paintings, Life? or Theater?, which consists of 769 individual works painted between 19 while she was in hiding from the Nazis in the south of France, and which has been called a painted parallel to Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl and an early graphic novel. “It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II”Ĭharlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin.