France Audoul / France (1894 - 1977)

04.02.2021

France Audoul née Martinon (9/13/1894 in Lyon– 9/15/1977 in Paris), full name: Francine Jeanne Étiennette Audoul, like Helen Ernst, Felice Mertens, Aat Breur, Edith Kiss and many others, France Audoul is one of the artists who today are known worldwide for their pictures from Ravensbrück. She came from Lyon and worked in Paris in several art workshops and at times ran her own studio. As a member of the Resistance, she was deported to Ravensbrück, where she made 32 sketches with portraits and scenes from camp life. After 1945 she resumed painting and participated in numerous exhibitions. In 1966 the Ravensbrücker drawings were published in an album - 150,000 Women in Hell. The originals of the drawings have been locked since then. Today the family only owns the drawing by Genevieve de Gaulle.