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Aul, Oskar

Profession
Artist
Biography

Oskar Aul was born 28 May 1927 in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim. Along with his family, he was deported to Siberia in 1941 where he worked for 14 years in the forced labor army of the Soviet Union.

He had no official training as an artist, but showed a talent in this area from an early age.

At the end of the Cold War, he moved to Germany and settled in Pforzheim. He died in Germany on 18 August 2010.

Source(s)
Volga Colonies

Self portrait by artist Oskar Aul.

Painting by Oskar Aul called "Das Manifest der Zarin."