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Description: | An avalanche of domestic debris illustrates the disruption to daily life caused by bombing during the Second World War.
Joseph Bat�� was born in Hungary and studied art in Paris under Henri Matisse. He arrived in London during the late 1930s as a refugee from the Nazis. In 1942, his wartime drawings were published in the book 'Defiant City: drawings of bombed London'.
After the war, Bat�� remained in London and worked in the film industry. He was production designer, costume designer and art director on several films including The Third Man, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
This drawing is one of 20 images of wartime London allocated to the London Museum by the War Artists Advisory Committee in the late 1940s. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | London at War Art and Design Home and Family | Temporal: | 1940 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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