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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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The Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart –
Émigré, Photographer and Secret Agent
Book talk by Daria Santini, London (United Kingdom)ONLINE VA, United StatesIn her talk, Daria Santini will present her new biography of the Austrian-British photographer and Soviet agent Edith Tudor Hart (1908–1973). At the centre of a wide and vibrant circle of predominantly Central European artists, architects, designers, scientists, intellectuals and political activists in 1930s and 1940s London, Tudor Hart combined a successful career as a photographer with a clandestine role as a communist agent. This remarkable dual identity forms the basis of a compelling and dramatic life story. Image above: Edith Tudor Hart, London ca 1935. REGISTER HERE Born in Vienna into a secular, social-democratic Jewish family deeply rooted in the progressive culture of the city that became known as 'Red Vienna', [...]
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Visibility Practices: Women Photographers of the Bauhaus
Presentation by Carla Maria Huttenloher, Berlin (Germany)ONLINE VA, United StatesIn this presentation, Carla Maria Huttenloher will bring women’s photographic agency to the forefront of the Bauhaus story, uncovering the rich and long-underexplored links between their lives and their powerful bodies of work. Image above: Grit Kallin-Fischer, Self-portrait with cigarette, around 1928. Courtesy Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin . REGISTER HERE Women have worked behind the camera since photography’s beginnings, but their contributions have been sidelined in art‑historical narratives. The Bauhaus offers a clear case: during the Weimar Republic women engaged with and shaped photographic modernism in multiple ways, yet their work is insufficiently acknowledged to date. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the social figure of the New Woman — ideologically linked to greater [...]
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