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“Fritz Ascher: Themes and Variations”
A Digital Exhibition Experience
PCEtLWJlZ2luIGt1bnN0bWF0cml4LS0+IDxpZnJhbWUgYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuPSJ0cnVlIiBmcmFtZWJvcmRlcj0iMCIgc2Nyb2xsaW5nPSJubyIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL2FydC5rdW5zdG1hdHJpeC5jb20vYXBwcy9hcnRzcGFjZXMvaW5kZXguaHRtbD9leHRlcm5hbD10cnVlJnNwbGFzaHNjcmVlbj10cnVlJmxhbmd1YWdlPWVuJnVpZD0yNTA5NiZleGhpYml0aW9uPTE5NjAyNTgiIHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjYwMCI+PC9pZnJhbWU+PCEtLWVuZCBrdW5zdG1hdHJpeC0tPg== This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). Ascher’s career extended from prior to the First World War until the late 1960s. However, Ascher’s artistic trajectory was interrupted due to persecution under National Socialism, and he spent much of the Second World War in hiding, concealed in a family friend’s basement. Ascher’s work consequently encompasses both the vibrant artistic scene in early-20th-century Germany, as well as the trauma and aesthetic shifts consequent of Ascher’s persecution and deprivations during the twelve years of the Nazi regime. These selected works are representative not only of critical moments in Ascher’s personal and artistic development, but also of key themes that occupied Ascher’s [...]
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Who Will Draw Our History?
ONLINE VA, United States
Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust, 1944-1949
Presentation by Rachel Perry, PhDIn this talk, art historian and curator Rachel Perry discusses ten graphic narratives of their experiences of Nazi persecution created by women immediately after liberation. Lacking photographs of what they witnessed and endured, these "first responders" used visual storytelling to counter perpetrator and liberator sources and represent maternal loss, sexual violence, forced labor, and bodily trauma—experiences rarely recorded in canonical Holocaust testimony. Drawing on archives across Europe, Israel, and the United States, this talk recovers marginalized stories that predate Art Spiegelman's Maus by decades. REGISTER HERE Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), Hände einer Graphikerin (Lea Grundig), ca. 1944. Vintage print, 11 7/8 x 9 ½ in., [Series: Menschliche Hände / Human Hands]. Courtesy of Galerie Berinson, [...]
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Costume as Character:
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, United States
Celebrating the Legacy of Ruth Morley
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NYCostume designer Ruth Morley was behind the iconic looks of several characters now considered legendary in cinema history. A Kindertransport child refugee from Vienna, in the 1950s she studied under German-American painter Hans Hofmann and went on to design costumes for opera and ballet before moving into theater, film and television. Her work can be seen in such iconic films as The Hustler (1961), The Miracle Worker (1962, Academy Award nomination), Taxi Driver (1976), Annie Hall (1977), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), One from the Heart (1981), The Chosen (1981), Tootsie (1982, BAFTA nomination) and Ghost (1990). In the 1980’s she began teaching and mentoring costume design graduate students at Brandeis and NYU. REGISTER HERE Join panelists Deborah Nadoolman Landis (Costume Designer and Distinguished Professor at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, [...]
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The Third Generation.
ONLINE VA, United States
‘So are these the footsteps of my grandmother or my own?’
Presentation by Sabine Apostolo, Vienna (Austria)Curator Sabine Apostolo will give a virtual tour through the exhibition “The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory” that was shown at the Jewish Museum Vienna from September 2024 to March 2025 and just closed at the Jewish Museum Munich. Image above: Die Dritte Generation Titel, Zitat: Cécile Wajsbrot, Mémorial, Göttingen 2023, 87 © JMW / Drahtzieher Design & Kommunikation REGISTER HERE Eighty years after the Holocaust, the last eyewitnesses are dying. Their stories, but also their trauma, have been passed on to their children and grandchildren. While the Second Generation grew up as direct observers of their parents’ psychological and physical damage, the Third Generation can look with greater distance at the family histories, [...]
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2026-02-28T00:00:00-05:00
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