Born Odessa, Ukraine, (1900 - ?)
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At
age five, Jacques Gotko moved with his family to Paris, where he later
studied at the École des Beaux Arts. He worked first as an architect,
then as a film set designer, and only later decided to devote himself to
painting, especially watercolors and pastels. Gotko exhibited at the Salon
d'Automne, the Zak Gallery, and had a particularly successful show at the
Jean Castel Gallery in 1939. This, however, would be Gotko's last exhibition.
He
was arrested in 1942 and interned in the concentration camp in Compiégne.
There he drew and painted scenes of life in the camp, with barbed wire
and watchtowers as notable elements in these works. In 1943 Gotko was sent
to the concentration camp in Drancy, and from there deported to a death
camp.
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