Despite their different professions and political views, Ernst, Paul and Robert regularly returned to their home, first to both parents, and after their father's death only to their mother.
In this photo taken in the house in front of you, you can see from the left: Hilda Neuschulová, née Strnadová, with her husband Paul, Jeanette Neuschulová, behind her are Ernest Neuschul with his wife Christel, Robert Neuschul and his wife Hilda, née Mühlsteinová.
In 1934, Ernest Neuschul officially left the Jewish community and married German painter Christel Bell. The following year, he traveled to the Soviet Union, where he was appointed professor at the Kharkov Academy of Painting, became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, and painted several magnificently Bolshevik paintings, including a double portrait of Stalin himself with the Bulgarian communist leader Dimitrov, accused of setting fire to the Reichstag.
He wanted to settle in Moscow permanently, but fortunately his friends talked him out of it. He left the Soviet Union only shortly before a bloody wave of purges broke out among communists abroad. Most of Neuschul’s artistic colleagues and acquaintances were arrested by the secret police and gradually executed.
How do you think Ernest Neuschul was affected by the arrests and executions of his friends in the USSR?