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SUMMARY:Armin Stern. Journeys and Escapes  Presentation by Erik Riedel\, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:The artist Armin Stern (1883–1944)\, born near Pressburg (now Bratislava)\, moved to Frankfurt in 1900 to study painting. Despite numerous travels and periods of study in Paris\, Brittany\, the Netherlands\, and Ticino\, Frankfurt remained the center of his life. After being excluded from an exhibition at the Frankfurt Kunstverein in 1933 because he was a “non-Aryan artist\,” he relocated with his family to Bratislava\, which had by then become part of Czechoslovakia. \nImage above: Armin Stern\, Ascona\, 1928. Watercolor. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREArmin Stern\, Self-Portrait at the Easel\, ca. 1930. Oil on painting board. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nArmin Stern\, Eschenheim Tower (Frankfurt a.M.)\, 1920s. Oil on canvas. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nAs the situation there also grew increasingly perilous\, Stern initially sought to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. By his own account\, the painter had become a Zionist while still a schoolboy; during an extended stay in Eretz Israel in 1933–34\, he had already gained intimate knowledge of the country while simultaneously looking for a place to settle with his family. In 1938\, he obtained an entry visa for the USA; he settled in New York and participated in several exhibitions. After five years of exile in the United States\, Armin Stern died of heart failure in July 1944\, just days before he was due to be naturalized. \nAlthough Stern had been a successful and popular landscape and portrait painter\, he had all but fallen into oblivion. This changed only with the publication of his biography by his granddaughter in 2008 and a cabinet exhibition at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt a year later. Now\, the artist’s estate—gifted by his grandchildren—enriches the art collection of the Jewish Museum. \n\nArmin Stern\, Jerusalem\, 1933. Watercolor\, ink\, and pencil. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \nArmin Stern\, Long Island Beach\, 1940–43. Watercolor. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nErik Riedel is head of exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and curator of the museum’s Ludwig Meidner Archive. The archive consists of the artistic estates of Ludwig and Else Meidner and several other artists who were forced into exile. Erik Riedel has curated numerous exhibitions on 19th- and 20th-century art\, for instance on Moritz Daniel Oppenheim\, Ludwig and Else Meidner\, Charlotte Salomon\, and Arie Goral. Apart from several exhibitions catalogues he has published the catalogue raisonné of Ludwig Meidner’s sketchbooks and the conference proceedings “Ludwig Meidner. Expressionism\, Ecstasy\, Exile” (2018)\, as well as the catalogue raisonné of Ludwig Meidner’s paintings until 1927 (2023). \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\n\n\nA special exhibition Armin Stern: Painter and Zionist is on view until January 3\, 2027\, in the “Art and Exile” room of the permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. \n\nEXHIBITION INFORMATION\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:Understanding Past Realities of the Holocaust.Photography versus Art With Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller (Berlin) and Dr. Rachel Perry (Boston)
DESCRIPTION:To mark the November Pogrom of 1938 (euphemistically called “Kristallnacht”)\, a discussion\, “Understanding Past Realities of the Holocaust: Photography versus Art” will take place on 4 November 2026. Historians Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller and Dr Rachel Perry examine how photography and art depicted the Nazi state-orchestrated campaign of terror perpetrated against Jewish men\, women and children across Germany\, Austria and the Sudetenland from 9 to 10 November 1938 (the November Pogrom). The historians ask what photography and art reveal about the lived realities of the victims of the Pogrom\, the interactions surrounding the violence and the broader society in which the violence was perpetrated. \n\nThe event will be live-streamed and recorded. Questions can be submitted through this form. \n\nThe discussion is organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme together with the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations. \n\nPhoto credit: Christoph Kreutzmüller \n\nREGISTRATION LINK \nOPENING REMARKS: \n\n\nMs. Melissa Fleming\, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications\nHis Excellency Mr. Ricklef Johannes Beutin\, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations\nMs. Rachel Stern\, Executive Director\, The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\n\nSPEAKERS: \n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller\, Deputy Project Director\, LastSeen: Pictures of Nazi-Deportations\, Selma Stern Center for Jewish History\, Berlin\, Germany\nDr. Rachel Perry\, Art historian\, curator and educator\, Weiss Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and Gratz College\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller \nDr. Rachel Perry \n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller\, the Berlin based historian and educator\, is the Deputy Director of the award-winning research project. LastSeen: Pictures of Nazi-Deportations. He studied History and English in Berlin and in the UK. After finishing his doctoral thesis on German banks in the Netherlands (1919-1945) he coordinated an extensive research project on the fate of Jewish owned businesses in Berlin 1930-1945 at the Humboldt University (Berlin) and worked as curator of the segment “Catastrophe” of the new permanent exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin.\nHis numerous publications include the award winning “Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity. 1930-1945” (New York/Oxford 2015) and (with Tal Bruttmann and Stefan Hördler)\, Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. A Photo Album from Auschwitz\, Darmstadt 2019.\nIn honorary office he is the chairman of the Aktive Museum\, Faschismus und Widerstand – a NGO open for anyone interested in dealing with the history of Nazism\, the social conditions which fostered it and the repercussions it continues to have. \n\nDr. Rachel Perry is an art historian and curator specializing in the representation and remembrance of the Holocaust and Second World War in visual culture. She teaches in the Weiss-Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa\, Israel as well as in the “Holocaust and Human Rights” programme at Gratz College\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Dr. Perry is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Getty Foundation\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, the Dedalus Foundation\, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the Yad Vashem Institute\, EHRI\, and CASVA. She is widely published. Her articles have appeared in several journals including Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, History and Memory\, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History\, French Cultural Studies\, RIHA\, Ars Judaica\, and Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in Boston\, United States of America\, where she is working on a manuscript concerning early graphic narratives of the Holocaust.
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SUMMARY:Kafka’s last Unknown: The Story and Character of his Drawings  Presentation by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher\, Zurich (Switzerland)
DESCRIPTION:Locked away for decades following also a history of persecution\, the drawings of the iconic 20th-century writer Franz Kafka remained one of the final unknowns of his work. In 2021\, the literary scholar Andreas Kilcher brought them to light.\nImage above: Franz Kafka\, Drawing of a whip-wielding jockey on a horse vaulting over an obstacle. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREFranz Kafka\, Drawing of a male figure\, entitled “The Dancer” by Kafka’s executor Max Brod. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nFranz Kafka\, A Beggar and a Generous Elegant Man\, 1906. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nThe year 2021 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by Franz Kafka that had been kept under lock and key for decades were made accessible. Although Kafka is renowned for his written work\, his drawings are evidence of what his literary executor\, Max Brod\, termed his ‘double talent’. Irresistible and full of fascinating figures\, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic\, the grotesque\, the uncanny\, and the carnivalesque\, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. \nFour new and fascinating stories can be told in relation to Kafka’s drawings: the story of their transmission\, the story of Kafka’s engagement with the visual arts\, the story of Kafka as a draftsman\, and the story of his drawing practice in the context of his writing\, which implies a complex aesthetic question: How are these drawings to be understood in their own right\, yet at the same time as connected to his writing? \n\nFranz Kafka\, The Wantonness of Wealth\, ca. 1905. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \nFranz Kafka\, Drawing showing a figure in full run. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nAndreas Kilcher is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He has been a visiting Professor at Princeton University\, Stanford University\, UC Davis\, and Tel Aviv University. His main areas of research are the relationship between literature and knowledge; Jewish literature and culture; and Kabbalah and esotericism. He has published a wide range of monographs\, edited volumes\, articles\, dictionary entries\, and reviews in these areas. Kilcher’s book on Franz Kafka’s drawings has been translated into more than ten languages and appeared on several bestseller lists. His most recent book\, Kafkas Werkstatt: Der Schriftsteller bei der Arbeit (Kafka’s Workshop: The Writer at Work)\, has also appeared on bestseller lists. He is currently working on a book about Doctor Faustus. \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\n\n\nFranz Kafka. The Drawings was edited By Andreas Kilcher and published by Yale University Press in 2022. \n\nYOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:Cocktail Reception benefiting The Fritz Ascher Society  at the home of Gary Zimmerman Central Park South\, New York\, NY
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to a cocktail reception at the home of Gary Zimmerman on Central Park South in NYC benefiting the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art. Join us for art\, conversation and connection. \n*All food is certified Kosher \nImage above: Marc Chagall\, Mockup for the backdrop of Stravinsky’s Firebird\, 1945. Gouache\, india ink\, pastel\, colored pencil\, and gold paper collage on paper mounted on japanese paper\, 14 13/16 x 24 7/16 in. (37.7 x 62 cm). Collection du Musée National d’Art Moderne\, Centre Pompidou\, Paris © 2026 Marc Chagall / Artists Rights Society (ARS)\, New York / ADAGP\, Paris \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS HERE\nWe look forward to seeing and discussing art\, to honoring its makers\, and to connecting with our heritage and with each other. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Chair:\nCarol Prendergast \n\nKeynote Speaker:\nBella Meyer\nGranddaughter of Marc Chagall \n\n\nKeynote speaker Bella Meyer will share with us her insights about her grandfather Marc Chagall\, and will speak about A Migrant’s Legacy – Marc Chagall’s Response. \n\n\nBella Meyer was born in Paris and raised in Basel\, Switzerland. As Marc Chagall‘s granddaughter\, shegrewup immersed inart.  She received her PhD in Medieval Art History from the Sorbonne in Paris.\nLiving in New York City since her late twenties\, Bella pursued her love for art\, and after teaching Medieval Art History\, focused on the oeuvre of her grandfather’s. She has written and lecturedon his work\, while sharing responsibilities for his estate.Her professional life also led her to create and design stage decorations of all types\, fromdance and theater costumes to puppetry\, from masks and props\, to her current passion for flowersfounding fleursBELLA\, a floral design studio in NYC\, to share the ever–inspiring beauty of each flower’s fleeting story with the world around.
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