Signed and Titled in Pencil

Hardwood and Glass Frame 

33"x 27"

Excellent Vintage Condition. See photos.

Renata Zerner (1951-    )

Renata Zerner was born in Germany in 1951. Renata is a painter and printmaker whose work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally. She works in oils, watercolors, and various print media. She has produced monoprints, etchings, and non-representational collages. 

She also recently completed her autobiography, “Bound to Witness”, about her life in Nazi Germany:

“Zerner grew up in cosmopolitan WW2 Berlin, where a constant stream of underground rumors and inside stories about the horrors of the Nazis circulated through the city and reached her family. She gained a broad awareness of the oppressive Hitler regime and witnessed disturbing Nazi violence against Jews. 

After a devastating air raid on Berlin Zerner leaves her home with her mother for a small spa in Western Germany to escape the increasing carpet bombings. Separated from her childhood home she feels uprooted, and she worries about the safety of her father who remains in Berlin. 

She conveys a sense of her fears and dark forebodings during this disastrous war, her horror over the loss of lives at the fronts and in the concentration camps, and her despair over her father’s death in an air raid. 

Zerner's memoir characterizes life in a society without freedom. She was a witness who knew, saw, and experienced those times. Her account has a place as part of our recorded history.”

 Born and educated in Berlin, Renata left Germany after World War II and came to Los Angeles in 1951. She studied art at the UCLA Extension Program and with the Los Angeles artist Keith Finch. She first exhibited her work in a two-man show at Keith Finch's studio in 1968. More group and solo shows followed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Switzerland, and Germany. 

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