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SUMMARY:Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana Lecture by Ori Z Soltes\, Washington DC
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nLecture featuring\nOri Z Soltes\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nThis lecture explores several interlocking themes. The work of three artists\, each in a different medium—Alice was primarily a painter\, Ronnie is a poet\, and Kitra is a well-recognized photographer and filmmaker—will be presented and explored with regard to both aesthetic and conceptual intentions and outcomes. Since these three artists represent three generations from within one family\, the question of how that familial relationship does or does not impinge on the artistic output will be explored. Inevitably\, the fact that the first of the three was a Holocaust survivor and the second is a survivor of a major stroke—who is slowly re-gaining his ability to speak and to move–will lead to a discussion of the various levels at which one may understand the concept “survival”–physical\, mental\, psychological-spiritual–and how the interwoven layers of that concept may be said to have affected the life and the art of all three generations in this matrix. \nThis talk discusses topics which are explored more deeply in the book with the same title\, which is edited by Ori Z Soltes and is published in December 2020 by The Fritz Ascher Society. \nOri Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across the disciplines of theology\, art history\, philosophy and politics. He is the former Director and Curator of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum where\, among some 80 exhibitions he curated an exhibited the work of Alice Lok Cahana. He is the author of several hundred articles and catalogue essays\, and the author or editor of 24 books\, including The Ashen Rainbow: The Holocaust and the Arts; Symbols of Faith: How Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture. \nGenerously sponsored by the\nConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \nImage: Alice Lok Cahana\, Whirlwind\, ca 1980. Acrylic and water color on canvas\, 54 x 62 inches. Courtesy Cahana family archives.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/cahana-soltes/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Memory,Past Events
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SUMMARY:"Trauma\, Memory and Art" An interdisciplinary virtual conference with Ori Z. Soltes\, Larry R. Squire\, Natan P.F. Kellermann and Eva Fogelman
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nIn this interdisciplinary conference\, four experts discuss the transmission of Holocaust trauma and memory against the backdrop of art. The starting point of the discussion is the art of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana and how artistic sensibilities\, traumatic memory—and a sense of obligation to improve the world—have been expressed through three generations of her family—both in who her children and grandchildren are and in how they express themselves artistically.\nThe discussion will amplify this layered issue from other angles: what have recent biological and psychological investigations offered\, regarding what memory is and how it works\, if and how trauma can be carried in the DNA—and the implications of all of this for understanding the impact of catastrophes like the Holocaust beyond the generation of those who experienced them directly. \nThis conference discusses topics which are explored more deeply in the book “Immortality\, Memory\, Creativity\, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana\,” which is edited by Ori Z. Soltes\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University\, Washington DC\, and will be published in December 2020 by The Fritz Ascher Society. \nGenerously sponsored by the\nConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York. \nGreetings \nHon. David Gill\, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York \nPanelists \nOri Z. Soltes PhD\, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.\n“The art of Alice Lok Cahana\, Ronnie Cahana\, and Kitra Cahana” \nLarry R. Squire PhD\, Professor of Psychiatry\, Neurosciences\, and Psychology at the University of California in San Diego CA\n“Remembering” \nNatan P. F. Kellermann PhD\, Psychologist and Psychodramatist in Jerusalem\, Israel\n“Major Variables of Holocaust Trauma Transmission” \nEva Fogelman PhD\, Social Psychologist and Psychotherapist in New York NY\n“Descendants of Holocaust Survivors: Myths and Realities” \nModerator \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of The Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY \n  \nDr. Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines\, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum\, and has curated more than 85 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 21 books and scores of articles and essays. Some of his recent books include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Searching for Oneness: Mysticism in Judaism\, Christianity and Islam; Untangling the Web: Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture. \nLarry R. Squire\, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1996\, is Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry\, Neurosciences\, and Psychology at the University of California\, San Diego. He is the author of Memory and Brain (1987) and Memory: From Mind to Molecules (with Eric Kandel\, 2009)\, and is also an editor of Fundamental Neuroscience (fourth edition\, 2013). \nNatan P. F. Kellerman was born in Sweden\, studied psychology at the University of Stockholm\, and moved to Israel in 1980. After training at the Moreno Institute in New York\, he became a practitioner of psychodrama. For many years\, he worked in Amcha: an Israeli treatment center for Holocaust survivors and their families\, and lectured on Holocaust trauma at the International School for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem. He is the author of Holocaust Trauma: Psychological Effects and Treatment (iUniverse\, 2009). \nEva Fogelman is a social psychologist\, psychotherapist\, author and filmmaker. She is in private practice in New York City and was co-founder and co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas at Training Institute for Mental Health\, and Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers\, ADL (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)\, currently co-director Child Development Research (includes International Study of Organized Persecution of Children). Dr. Fogelman is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process and Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust(PBS). Dr. Fogelman is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.Her hundreds of writings appear in professional as well as popular publications.  Dr. Fogelman is a pioneer in therapeutic interventions for generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas\, and is a frequent consultant and speaker nationally and internationally.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/immortality-memory-creativity-survival/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Memory,Past Events
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SUMMARY:John Heartfield (1891-1968)His Political Engagement and Private Life in LondonRosa von der Schulenburg\, Berlin
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nLecture featuring\nRosa von der Schulenburg\, Head of the Art Collection of the Academy of Arts in Berlin\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nJohn Heartfield (1891-1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. This presentation starts with preliminary remarks about John Heartfield’s bequest in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and shows how it is accessible nowadays. A short introduction of how all began follows\, showing the background of the birth of Heartfield’s political photo-montages (World War I\, Dada\, Communist Party\, Willi Münzenberg’s Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung in short AIZ)\, glances at Heartfield’s first exile stage in Prague and then focuses on his 12 years as an emigrant in London\, asking how a German communist artist could continue working in exile in Great Britain during the war. \nDr. habil. Rosa von der Schulenburg is the Head of the Art Collection of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. She trained as a restorer for paintings and sculptures\, studied art history\, history and German\, dissertation on George Grosz and the legal prosecution of his satirical art during the Weimar Republic\, collaboration on various exhibition projects (including Bibliotheca Palatina\, Matthaeus Merian the Elder\, Pacifism between the world wars\, blue – the color of the distance)\, worked for several years in an auction house\, in the antiquarian book and publishing industry (Heidelberg) and in the Museum of Applied Art (Frankfurt / Main)\, from 1993 to 2000 research assistant at the Institute for Book Studies at Gutenberg University Mainz\, 2001 habilitation on Art in Exile at Goethe University Frankfurt / Main\, from 2001-2003 visiting professor (DAAD guest lecturer) at Concordia University and at McGill University in Montréal\, 2004/05 Consultant for the exhibition project “Die Zeit im Blick. Felix Nussbaum und die Moderne” on behalf of the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus\, Osnabrück and editor of the catalog of the same name\, since 2005 head of the art collection of the Akademie der Künste\, Berlin\, from 2008 also lecturer for art history at Humboldt University in Berlin. Publications mainly on modern and contemporary art (partly under the pen name Rosamunde Neugebauer). \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression\, which is generously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \n\nImage: John Heartfield\, Durch Licht zur Nacht\, Titelseite der Arbeiter-Illustrierten-Zeitung\, 1933\, Nr. 18\, Kupfertiefdruck\n© The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst\, Bonn 2020\nAkademie der Künste\, Berlin\,  Inv.Nr. JH 2195\n\n  \nJohn Heartfield (1891-1968). Sein Politisches Engagement und Privatleben in London \nJohn Heartfield (1891-1968) war ein deutscher bildender Künstler\, der Pionierarbeit im Umgang mit Kunst als politische Waffe leistete. Diese Präsentation beginnt mit einigen einleitenden Bemerkungen zu John Heartfields Vermächtnis in der Akademie der Künste in Berlin und zeigt\, wie es heutzutage zugänglich ist. Es folgt eine kurze Einführung in die Anfänge und den Hintergrund der Geburt von Heartfields politischen Foto-Montagen (Erster Weltkrieg\, Dada\, Kommunistische Partei\, Willi Münzenbergs Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung\, kurz AIZ). Es folgt ein Blick auf Heartfields erste Exilphase in Prag und konzentriert sich dann voll und ganz auf seine 12 Jahre als Auswanderer in London und fragt\, wie ein deutscher kommunistischer Künstler während des Krieges weiterhin im britischen Exil arbeiten kann. \nDr. Rosa habil. von der Schulenburg\, geb. 1958 in Augsburg\, Ausbildung zur Restauratorin für Gemälde und Skulpturen\, Studium der Kunstgeschichte\, Geschichte und Germanistik\, Diss. über George Grosz und die juristische Verfolgung seiner satirischen Kunst zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik\, Mitarbeit an diversen Ausstellungsprojekten (u.a. Bibliotheca Palatina\, Matthaeus Merian d.Ä.\, Pazifismus zwischen den Weltkriegen\, Blau – Farbe der Ferne)\, mehrjährige Tätigkeit in einem Auktionshaus\, im Antiquariats- und Verlagswesen (Heidelberg) und im Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt/Main)\, von 1993 bis 2000 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Instituts für Buchwissenschaft an der Gutenberg-Universität Mainz\, 2001 Habilitation zur Kunst im Exil an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main\, von 2001-2003 Visiting Professor (DAAD-Gastdozentur) an der Concordia University und an der McGill University in Montréal\, 2004/05 Beraterin für das Ausstellungsprojekt Die Zeit im Blick. Felix Nussbaum und die Moderne im Auftrag des Felix-Nussbaum-Hauses\, Osnabrück und Herausgeberin des gleichnamigen Katalogs\, seit 2005 Leiterin der Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste\, Berlin\, ab 2008 zudem für einige Jahre Privatdozentin für Kunstgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Publikationen vor allem zu Kunst der Moderne und der Gegenwart (teils unter dem Autorennamen Rosamunde Neugebauer). \n 
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/john-heartfield-1891-1968his-political-engagement-and-private-life-in-londonrosa-von-der-schulenburg-berlin-2/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Twitterview @Ascher_SocietyGiora Seeliger“Ask A Healthcare Clown!”
DESCRIPTION:Twitter @Ascher_Society \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiora Seeliger\, Artistic Director and Founder of Red Noses Clowndoctors International\, takes over the FAS Twitter account to answer your burning questions about clowning\, the role of a healthcare clown\, and anything else that comes to mind! \n\n\n\nSubmit your questions in advance by writing to info@fritzaschersociety.org \n\n\n\nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nGiora Seeliger is a renowned clowning expert\, actor and director. He founded RED NOSES in 1994 in Austria/Europe and built up 11 RED NOSES organizations in Europe and the Middle East as well as many artistic programs as “Emergency Smile\,” where clowns work worldwide with people affected by crisis. As he is responsible for the high artistic quality within the group\, he developed a rigorous curriculum that every clown has to go through.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/twitter-takeover-ascher_society-ask-a-hospital-clown/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events,Send in the Clowns
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SUMMARY:"The Hospital Clown: Between Joy and Sadness"Roundtable featuringGiora Seeliger\, Harry Page\, Ed StephanModerated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording of this event HERE. \nRoundtable featuring\nGiora Seeliger\nArtistic Director and Founder of the Red Noses Clowndoctors International\nHarry Page\n“Flash” the Clown\nEd Stephan\n“Dumbbell” the Clown\nModerated by\nElizabeth Berkowitz\nArt Historian and Digital Interpretation Manager\, The Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nOne of the more appealing aspects of the clown subject to artists like Fritz Ascher was the divide between a public persona committed to joy and happiness\, and the pain or sadness that might lurk beneath the real\, human surface. Hospital or healthcare clowns straddle this divide every day of their professional lives—working to bring happiness to child patients who are often in circumstances that might otherwise inspire grief or pain. This roundtable features three professional hospital or healthcare clowns who will reflect upon their experiences in the field\, their most popular programming\, as well as coping mechanisms they use to ensure that their audience receives only positivity from their encounter. \nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nGiora Seeliger is a renowned clowning expert\, actor and director. He founded RED NOSES in 1994 in Austria/Europe and built up 11 RED NOSES organizations in Europe and the Middle East as well as many artistic programs as “Emergency Smile”\, where clowns work worldwide with people affected by crisis. As he is responsible for the high artistic quality within the group\, he developed a rigorous curriculum that every clown has to go through. \n\nHarry Page retired from Chrysler Corporation in 2001 and shortly thereafter moved with his wife to Knoxville\, Tennessee. In the development where they lived there was a group of people who organized the Volunteer Clowns of Tellico Village\, and Harry soon joined. The clown trope visited assisted living\, nursing homes\, and the area hospitals\, and Harry soon focused solely on hospital clowning at Fort Loudon Hospital and the University of Tennessee Medical Center. In 2016\, Harry and his wife moved to Marco Island\, FL\, where he has been clowning at Naples Community Hospital and the Golisano Children’s Hospital.\n\nEd Stephan is currently clowning at Golisano Children’s Hospital in Ft. Myers\, Florida. As “Dumbbell\,” Ed entertains children\, staff\, and visitors. Ed’s work at Golisano Children’s Hospital includes participating in special events held at the Hospital and the offsite offices. \nElizabeth Berkowitz is an art historian specializing in European modernism and modern art historiography. She currently serves as the Fritz Ascher Society’s Digital Interpretation Manager\, and previously was the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Rockefeller Archive Center. She has extensive experience as a university and museum educator\, and her writings have appeared in both popular and academic publications.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/the-hospital-clown/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events,Send in the Clowns
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SUMMARY:Bilder im Gespräch: BajazzoGuided Tour through the Exhibition “The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher"by Curator Julia Diekmann\, Höxter (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition curator Julia Diekmann guides through the exhibition. \nWhether in dramatic context or as individual figure\, the clown always plays the role of the outsider\, of the one opposite the many. He is laughed at and ridiculed\, is the fool\, despised\, and humiliated\, always operating from the margin. In Ascher’s work\, the figure of the clown\, the Bajazzo\, appears first around 1916. It becomes a lifelong interest\, expressed in paintings\, drawings\, lithographs and poems. Based on the opera I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)\, which was popular in the 1920s\, Ascher creates both dramatic scenes of the tragic love burlesque and studies of the Bajazzo\, the Pagliaccio or clown as a single figure. The intensity in the artistic expression of the figure\, especially the face\, encourages us to see these works as analogies to the artist himself\, the increasing parallelism between role and own artistic self. In the exhibition\, these depictions of clowns are contrasted with the powerful landscapes that dominate the work from 1945 onwards. \n\n\n\n\nDue to the corona protection regulations\, the number of participants is limited and registration is required. \nForum Jacob Pins\nWesterbachstr. 35/37\, 37671 Höxter\nT: +49 (5271) 694 74 41\nE: forum@jacob-pins.de\nwww.jacob-pins.de \nThe exhibition is on view until November 29\, 2020\, Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is co-organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc.\, New York and the Jacob Pins Gesellschaft Kunstverein Höxter e.V.\, and is co-curated by Rachel Stern and Julia Diekmann. The exhibition is sponsored by the Ministry for Culture and Science of North Rhine Westphalia. Support for the catalogue was provided by Reinwald GmbH\, Leipzig. \nDEUTSCH \nAusstellungs-Kuratorin Julia Diekmann führt durch die Ausstellung. \nOb in szenischem Zusammenhang oder als Einzelfigur\, der Clown nimmt immer die Rolle des Abseitigen ein\, die des Einzelnen gegenüber Vielen. Er wird belacht und verlacht\, ist Narr\, Verachteter und Erniedrigter\, handelt immer aus einer Randposition heraus. Seit ca. 1916 setzt sich Fritz Ascher in Gemälden\, Zeichnungen\, Lithografien und Gedichten intensiv mit der Figur des Clowns\, des Bajazzo auseinander. Ausgehend von der in den 1920er Jahren beliebten Oper „I Pagliacci“ von Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919) kreiert er sowohl szenische Darstellungen der tragischen Liebesburleske als auch Studien des Bajazzo\, des Pagliaccio oder Clowns als Einzelfigur. Die Intensität im künstlerischen Ausdruck der Figur verweist auf Analogien zu ihm selbst\, die zunehmende Parallelität zwischen Rolle und eigenem künstlerischem Ich. In der Ausstellung werden diese Darstellungen von Clowns den kraftvollen Landschaften gegenübergestellt\, die das Werk ab 1945 dominieren \nDie Ausstellung wurde von der Fritz Ascher Gesellschaft für verfolgte\, geächtete und verbotene Kunst\, Inc.\, New York in Zusammenarbeit mit der Jacob Pins Gesellschaft organisiert und von Rachel Stern und Julia Diekmann kuratiert. Die Ausstellung wird vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalens gesponsert. Den Katalog unterstützte die Reinwald GmbH\, Leipzig. \nDie Ausstellung ist zu sehen vom 6. September bis 29. November 2020 im Forum Jacob Pins\, Westerbachstr. 35/37\, 37671 Höxter\, Tel.: 05271-694 74 41\, www.jacob-pins.de\, Di. – So. 10:00 – 17:00 Uhr.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/bilder-im-gesprachguided-tour-through-the-exhibition-the-loner-clowns-in-the-art-of-fritz-ascherby-curator-julia-diekmann-hoxter-germany/
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SUMMARY:“The Clown on Stage”Roundtable featuringMatthew R. Wilson\, Ori Z. Soltes\, Tricia Manuel / "Pricilla Mooseburger"Moderated by Elizabeth Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording of this event HERE. \nRoundtable featuring\nMatthew R. Wilson\nDirector (SDC)\, Actor (AEA\, SAG-AFTRA)\, and Fight Director (SAFD\, SDC)\, as well as a scholar and playwright\nOri Z. Soltes\nTeaching Professor at Center for Jewish Civilization\, Georgetown University\, Washington D.C.\nTricia Manuel / “Pricilla Mooseburger” the Clown\nTricia Manuel is the unmistakable Pricilla Mooseburger!\nModerated by\nElizabeth Berkowitz\nArt Historian and Digital Interpretation Manager\, The Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nHow do we define “the clown\,” historically\, in art\, and today\, in practice? What is the appeal of the clown in performance\, and how has the clown subject impacted popular culture? This roundtable pools the expertise from a diversity of fields to place Fritz Ascher’s interest in “the clown” in the context of historical and contemporary performance and imagery. \nPart of “Send in the Clowns\,” an interactive two-week digital initiative\, which explores the clown as a figure between tragedy and comedy\, between self- identification and stage–a character designed to (literally) mask the performer’s true feelings behind a facade of happiness. “Send in the Clowns” uses the prominence of the “clown” figure in Fritz Ascher’s work as a lens through which to explore the duality of the clown both historically and today. \nGenerously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nMatthew R. Wilson teaches at The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for its Academy for Classical Acting in partnership with The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Dr. Wilson previously served as the International Coordinator of SAT’s worldwide Commedia dell’Arte Day and as Chair of Movement & Physical Theatre for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. He has studied\, taught\, and performed Commedia across Europe and North America including six years teaching at Antonio Fava’s Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell’Arte in Reggio-Emilia\, Italy. Wilson earned a Helen Hayes Award as founder and former Artistic Director of DC’s Faction of Fools Theatre and has toured the world with The Great One-Man Commedia Epic since 2004. Selected publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte (Routledge 2015)\, the play A Commedia Christmas Carol (Playscripts 2013). Visit www.matthewrwilson.com for more information. \n\nOri Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines. He is former Director the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum. In that capacity he has curated over 80 exhibitions domestically and internationally. Soltes has authored or edited 24 books and scores of articles and exhibition catalogue essays including Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Mysticism in Judaism; Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish art and Architecture; and Magic and Religion in the Greco-Roman World: The Beginnings of Judaism and Christianity.\n\nPricilla Mooseburger got her start clowning with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey in 1982. She is the owner of Pricilla Mooseburger Originals supplying high quality clown costumes and make-up for over 25 years. She is the founder of Mooseburger Clown Arts Camp and received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award from the Midwest Clown Assoc. and Clowns of America International. Sher was honored with the Lifetime of Laughter award from the International Clown Hall of Fame for her contribution to clown arts education and 24 years of Mooseburger Clown Arts Camp. She launched a new virtual program The Joyful Journey bring together clowns from all over the world! Her e-newsletter Mooseburger Newz is followed by thousands providing free clown arts education.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/the-clown-on-stage/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events,Send in the Clowns
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SUMMARY:Painting as an Act of Resistance.The artist Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)Anne Sibylle Schwetter\, Osnabrück
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. \nLecture featuring\nAnne Sibylle Schwetter\, Curator of the Felix Nussbaum Collection in the Felix Nussbaum House in the Osnabrück Museum Quarter\, Osnabrück\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nThe German-Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum (1904 Osnabrück – 1944 Auschwitz) started a promising career in Berlin around 1930\, which ended abruptly when the National Socialists came to power in 1933. Years in exile in Italy and Belgium followed. In 1942 Nussbaum went into hiding in Brussels. The artist’s last paintings were created here from June 1943 until shortly before his arrest in June 1944. A little later he was murdered in Auschwitz.\nLike hardly any other painter of his generation\, Nussbaum reflected on personal experiences in the context of the time in his pictures and developed his own artistic style within figurative-representational modernism. Nussbaum was forced to concentrate on his own survival at the height of his artistic work. However\, the increasingly difficult conditions in exile and the life-threatening situation in hiding did not lead to artistic stagnation. On the contrary\, Nussbaum condenses his painting in his later works into a simile imagery that gives the existential themes of his pictures a timeless dimension.\nThe lecture explores the life and work of Felix Nussbaum and outlines the artistic strategies of the painter\, for whom painting became an act of resistance against dehumanization and against oblivion. \nAnne Sibylle Schwetter is the curator of the Felix Nussbaum Collection in the Felix Nussbaum House in the Osnabrück Museum Quarter. She studied art history and German in Osnabrück and Münster. In her master’s thesis she researched the subject of “Big City\, Technology and Sport. Aspects of Modernism in Felix Nussbaum’s Early Work”. Since 2004 she has been editing the catalog raisonné of the artist Felix Nussbaum. In 2006 she designed the publication as an online catalog raisonné. She curated numerous exhibitions on Felix Nussbaum\, including “Danse macabre. Dance and Death in Art of the Early Twentieth Century” (2017) and exhibitions on ostracized artists. Together with Rachel Stern\, she organized the exhibition “Leben ist Glühn. The Expressionist Fritz Ascher” at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus. Most recently she curated the exhibition on Felix Nussbaum as part of the Digital Art Hall in cooperation with ZDF-Kultur as well as the temporary collection exhibition in the Felix Nussbaum House “Seeing Nussbaum differently. New Perspectives on the Collection” (until November 1\, 2020). \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression\, which is generously sponsored by Allianz Partners. \n\nImage: Felix Nussbaum\, Self Portrait with Jewish Passport [Selbstbildnis mit Judenpass]\, ca. 1943\, oil on canvas\, 56 x 49 cm. Felix-Nussbaum-Haus im Museumsquartier Osnabrück\, Loan from Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung.\n\n  \nMalen als Akt des Widerstands – Der Künstler Felix Nussbaum  \nDer deutsch-jüdische Künstler Felix Nussbaum (1904 Osnabrück – 1944 Auschwitz) startete in Berlin um 1930 eine vielversprechende Karriere\, die mit der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten 1933 abrupt beendet wurde. Es folgten Jahre im Exil in Italien und Belgien. 1942 tauchte Nussbaum in einem Versteck in Brüssel unter. Hier entstanden ab Juni 1943 die letzten Gemälde des Künstlers bis kurz vor seiner Verhaftung im Juni 1944. Wenig später wurde er in Auschwitz ermordet.\nWie kaum eine andere Malerin oder ein anderer Maler seiner Generation hat Nussbaum in seinen Bildern die persönlichen Erfahrungen im Kontext der Zeit reflektiert und dabei in Auseinandersetzung mit der figurativ-gegenständlichen Moderne einen eigenen künstlerischen Stil entwickelt. Nussbaum war gezwungen\, sich auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen Schaffens auf das eigene Überleben zu konzentrieren. Die zunehmend schwierigen Bedingungen im Exil und die lebensbedrohliche Situation im Versteck führten jedoch nicht zu künstlerischer Stagnation. Im Gegenteil\, Nussbaum verdichtet seine Malerei in den späten Werken zu einer gleichnishaften Bildsprache\, die den existenziellen Themen seiner Bilder eine zeitlose Dimension verleiht.\nDer Vortrag geht Leben und Werk Felix Nussbaums nach und wird die künstlerischen Strategien des Malers skizzieren\, für den die Malerei zu einem Akt des Widerstands gegen die Entmenschlichung und gegen das Vergessen wurde. \nAnne Sibylle Schwetter ist Kuratorin der Sammlung Felix Nussbaum im Felix-Nussbaum-Haus des Museumsquartiers Osnabrück. Sie studierte Kunstgeschichte und Germanistik in Osnabrück und Münster. In ihrer Magisterarbeit beschäftigte sie sich mit dem Thema „Großstadt\, Technik und Sport. Aspekte der Moderne im frühen Werk Felix Nussbaums“. Seit 2004 bearbeitet sie das Werkverzeichnis des Künstlers Felix Nussbaum. 2006 konzipierte sie die Publikation als Online-Werkverzeichnis. Sie kuratierte zahlreiche Ausstellungen zu Felix Nussbaum\, u.a. „Danse macabre. Tanz und Tod in der Kunst des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts“ (2017) sowie Ausstellungen zu verfemten Künstler:innen. Zusammen mit Rachel Stern hat sie 2016 die Ausstellung „Leben ist Glühn. Der Expressionist Fritz Ascher“ im Felix-Nussbaum-Haus organisiert. Zuletzt kuratierte sie die Ausstellung zu Felix Nussbaum im Rahmen der Digitalen Kunsthalle in Kooperation mit ZDF-Kultur sowie die temporäre Sammlungsausstellung im Felix-Nussbaum-Haus „Nussbaum anders sehen. Neue Perspektiven auf die Sammlung“ (bis 1. November 2020). \n 
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/10-7-20-felix-nussbaum/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Dance under the Swastika:Mary Wigman and Gyp Schlicht (1917-2015)Sabine Rollberg\, Freiburg
DESCRIPTION:View a recording this event HERE \nEXCLUSIVE: Watch Annette von Wangenheim’s German language documentary film “Tanz unterm Hakenkreuz” from 2003 HERE. Big thanks to Annette von Wangenheim and Sabine Rollberg for making this possible!\nGyp Schlicht speaks at 38:02 min. \nLecture featuring\nSabine Rollberg\, Professor Emeritus of Documentary Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and former ARTE Representative and ARTE Commissioning Editor for WDR\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nIn times of Nazi Germany\, becoming an artist was not the typical career path for women. The „deutsche Frau“ was supposed to represent the “good housewife”\, as a mother of many children\, not wearing make-up and fancy dresses. The Nazis were refuting what they considered the decadency of the Weimar Republic\, producing self-reliant\, smoking\, smart women. But to establish an image as a modern\, future-oriented nation vis-a-vis other countries\, they needed some modern women like Leni Riefenstahl\, Marika Röck\, or Ilse Werner\, who amused and distracted the German audience from seeing the committed cruelties.\nMy mother\, a daughter of an assimilated German Jew and an Italian Catholic mother was a dancer in these days\, a student of Mary Wigman\, who is considered the founder of the German expressive dance. In this talk\, I will try to describe their professional lives not as an academic researcher\, but as a daughter and journalist\, hoping to find answers to how they pursued their career while their friends or relatives were deported or killed in concentration camps. \nProf. Sabine Rollberg was born in Freiburg in 1953 and studied History\, German Language and Literature and Political Science to doctorate level in Freiburg and Bonn. Freelance work: SWF (radio/TV broadcaster)\, Badische Zeitung (newspaper) and Frankfurter Rundschau (newspaper). After training at WDR\, she was appointed editor of International Programming (World Review\, World Review for Children\, Cultural World Review\, International Studio\, Burning Issues\, Reviews)\, Culture and Science; reporter for TV programmes Weltspiegel (World Review)\, Auslandsreport (International Report) and Auslandsstudio (International Studio)\, moderator of Treffpunkt Dritte Welt (Third World Meeting Place) and talk show Leute (People) for Berlin-based broadcaster SFB.\nFrom 1995 to 2005 she was on the media advisory board of the Goethe-Institut and Jury Member of the European Journalism Award at Freie Universität\, Berlin. From 1989 to 1994 Sabine Rollberg was ARD’s correspondent in Paris and was ARTE Editor-in-Chief in Strasbourg between 1994 and 1997. From 1999 to 2019 she was ARTE representative and ARTE Commissioning Editor for WDR. From 2007 to 2019 she was Professor of Documentary Film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.\nAmong other things\, she was responsible for overseeing many WDR/ARTE documentary films which won numerous international awards\, including two Oscar nominations\, among them „Darwin’s Nightmare“\, „Lost Children“\, „Losers and Winners“\, „Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief“\, “The Picture of the Napalm Girl”\, „The Green Wave / Iran Elections 2009“\, “I Shot My Love”\, “The Boy Mir – Ten Years In Afghanistan”\, “7 Or Why I Exist” and “Burma VJ – Reporting From A Closed Country”.\nSabine Rollberg is board member of Freiburg University and teaching professor at the Freiburg University College for Liberal Arts and Sciences. \n  \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression. \nSponsored by Allianz Partners. \n\nImage: Sabine Rollberg\, Freiburg.\n\n  \nTanz unter der Swastika: Mary Wigman und Gyp Schlicht (1917-2015) \nIn Zeiten des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands war es nicht der typische Karriereweg für Frauen\, Künstlerin zu werden. Die „deutsche Frau“ sollte die „gute Hausfrau“ als Mutter vieler Kinder sein\, die kein Make-up und keine Kostüme trug. Die Nazis widerlegten\, was sie als Dekadenz der Weimarer Republik betrachteten\, die eigenständige\, rauchende\, kluge Frauen hervorgebracht hatte. Aber um ein Image als moderne\, zukunftsorientierte Nation gegenüber anderen Ländern zu etablieren\, brauchten sie einige moderne Frauen wie Leni Riefenstahl\, Marika Röck oder Ilse Werner\, die das deutsche Publikum amüsierten und davon ablenkten\, die begangenen Grausamkeiten zu sehen.\nMeine Mutter\, eine Tochter eines assimilierten deutschen Juden und einer italienischen katholischen Mutter\, war in diesen Tagen Tänzerin\, eine Schülerin von Mary Wigman\, die als Begründerin des deutschen Ausdruckstanzes gilt. In diesem Vortrag werde ich versuchen\, ihr Berufsleben nicht als akademische Forscherin\, sondern als Tochter und Journalistin zu beschreiben\, in der Hoffnung\, Antworten darauf zu finden\, wie sie ihre Karriere verfolgten\, während ihre Freunde oder Verwandten in Konzentrationslagern deportiert oder getötet wurden.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/dance-under-the-swastika-sabine-rollberg/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Guided Tour through the Exhibition “The Loner. Clowns in the Art of Fritz Ascher"by Curator Julia Diekmann\, Höxter (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition curator Julia Diekmann guides through the exhibition. \nWhether in dramatic context or as individual figure\, the clown always plays the role of the outsider\, of the one opposite the many. He is laughed at and ridiculed\, is the fool\, despised\, and humiliated\, always operating from the margin. In Ascher’s work\, the figure of the clown\, the Bajazzo\, appears first around 1916. It becomes a lifelong interest\, expressed in paintings\, drawings\, lithographs and poems. Based on the opera I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)\, which was popular in the 1920s\, Ascher creates both dramatic scenes of the tragic love burlesque and studies of the Bajazzo\, the Pagliaccio or clown as a single figure. The intensity in the artistic expression of the figure\, especially the face\, encourages us to see these works as analogies to the artist himself\, the increasing parallelism between role and own artistic self. In the exhibition\, these depictions of clowns are contrasted with the powerful landscapes that dominate the work from 1945 onwards. \n\n\n\n\nDue to the corona protection regulations\, the number of participants is limited and registration is required. \nForum Jacob Pins\nWesterbachstr. 35/37\, 37671 Höxter\nT: +49 (5271) 694 74 41\nE: forum@jacob-pins.de\nwww.jacob-pins.de \nThe exhibition is on view until November 29\, 2020\, Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. \n\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is co-organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc.\, New York and the Jacob Pins Gesellschaft Kunstverein Höxter e.V.\, and is co-curated by Rachel Stern and Julia Diekmann. The exhibition is sponsored by the Ministry for Culture and Science of North Rhine Westphalia. Support for the catalogue was provided by Reinwald GmbH\, Leipzig. \nDEUTSCH \nAusstellungs-Kuratorin Julia Diekmann führt durch die Ausstellung. \nOb in szenischem Zusammenhang oder als Einzelfigur\, der Clown nimmt immer die Rolle des Abseitigen ein\, die des Einzelnen gegenüber Vielen. Er wird belacht und verlacht\, ist Narr\, Verachteter und Erniedrigter\, handelt immer aus einer Randposition heraus. Seit ca. 1916 setzt sich Fritz Ascher in Gemälden\, Zeichnungen\, Lithografien und Gedichten intensiv mit der Figur des Clowns\, des Bajazzo auseinander. Ausgehend von der in den 1920er Jahren beliebten Oper „I Pagliacci“ von Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919) kreiert er sowohl szenische Darstellungen der tragischen Liebesburleske als auch Studien des Bajazzo\, des Pagliaccio oder Clowns als Einzelfigur. Die Intensität im künstlerischen Ausdruck der Figur verweist auf Analogien zu ihm selbst\, die zunehmende Parallelität zwischen Rolle und eigenem künstlerischem Ich. In der Ausstellung werden diese Darstellungen von Clowns den kraftvollen Landschaften gegenübergestellt\, die das Werk ab 1945 dominieren \nDie Ausstellung wurde von der Fritz Ascher Gesellschaft für verfolgte\, geächtete und verbotene Kunst\, Inc.\, New York in Zusammenarbeit mit der Jacob Pins Gesellschaft organisiert und von Rachel Stern und Julia Diekmann kuratiert. Die Ausstellung wird vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalens gesponsert. Den Katalog unterstützte die Reinwald GmbH\, Leipzig. \nDie Ausstellung ist zu sehen vom 6. September bis 29. November 2020 im Forum Jacob Pins\, Westerbachstr. 35/37\, 37671 Höxter\, Tel.: 05271-694 74 41\, www.jacob-pins.de\, Di. – So. 10:00 – 17:00 Uhr.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/julia-diekmann-9-12-2020/
LOCATION:Forum Jacob Pins\, Westerbachstr. 35-37\, Höxter\, 37671\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repressionThe difficult case of painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956)Aya Soika\, Berlin
DESCRIPTION:View a recording of the event HERE. \nLecture featuring\nAya Soika\, Professor of Art History at Bard College Berlin\, Germany\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nThe German Expressionist Emil Nolde is arguably one of most prominent victims of the Nazis’ art politics: No other painter had so many works confiscated\, or was presented as prominently in the show „Degenerate Art\,“ which opened in Munich in July 1937. Yet\, his position differs fundamentally from that of many other artists who will be presented in the Fritz Ascher Society’s lecture series “From Flight to Fight”: Nolde was not just a victim but also a loyal supporter of the regime whose world views were radicalized by antisemitic propaganda in the early 1940s. Despite of the fact that his pictorial oeuvre was attacked by many traditionalists he did not give up hope that the Nazi leadership would ultimately acknowledge his role as a pioneer of ‘pure’ German art (which did not happen). On the occasion of the Nolde exhibition in Berlin’s National Gallery in 2019 the curators Aya Soika\, Bernhard Fulda and Christian Ring took a fresh look at the ‘legendary’ artistic persona of Nolde\, focussing on the complex dynamics between Nolde’s biography and his own writings\, his art and his reception up until today. The findings presented in our show triggered an international public debate on how to deal with one of the icons of early twentieth century German Expressionism. \nAya Soika is professor of art history at Bard College Berlin. She was born and raised in Berlin\, and gained a PhD from King’s College\, Cambridge. She has published widely in the field of German Expressionism and is author of the catalogue raisonné of Max Pechstein’s oil paintings (2 vols\, 2011)\, the monograph Max Pechstein The Rise and Fall of Expressionism (with Bernhard Fulda\, 2012)\, a book on the Brücke artists during the First World War (2014) and one on Max and Lotte Pechstein’s journey to the South Seas (2016). Together with Bernhard Fulda and Christian Ring she has curated the exhibition on Emil Nolde during the Nazi period at Berlin’s National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof last year; and in parallel together with Meike Hoffmann and Lisa Marei Schmidt the show Die Brücke artists during the Nazi period at the Brücke Museum Berlin. On the occasion of the two exhibitions her research (and that of the above mentioned colleagues) was published in the accompanying catalogues. \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression \nSponsored by Allianz Partners. \n\nImage: Aya Soika\, Berlin.\n\n  \nDer schwierige Fall des Malers Emil Nolde (1867-1956) \nDer deutsche Expressionist Emil Nolde ist wohl eines der prominentesten Opfer der Kunstpolitik der Nazis: Von keinem anderen Maler wurden so viele Werke beschlagnahmt\, kein anderer wurde in der im Juli 1937 in München eröffneten Ausstellung „Entartete Kunst“ so prominent präsentiert. Seine Position unterscheidet sich grundlegend von der vieler anderer Künstler\, die in der Vortragsreihe “From Flight to Fight” der Fritz Ascher Society vorgestellt werden: Nolde war nicht nur ein Opfer\, sondern auch ein treuer Anhänger des Regimes\, dessen Weltanschauung durch antisemitische  Propaganda in den frühen 1940er Jahren radikalisiert wurde. Trotz der Tatsache\, dass seine Kunst von vielen Traditionalisten angegriffen wurde\, gab er die Hoffnung nicht auf\, dass die nationalsozialistische Führungsriege letztendlich seine Rolle als Pionier der “reinen” deutschen Kunst anerkennen würde (was nicht geschah). Anlässlich der Nolde-Ausstellung in der Berliner Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof im Jahr 2019 wurde ein neuer Blick auf Emil Nolde geworfen und die komplexe Dynamik zwischen Noldes Biografie und seinen eigenen Schriften\, seiner Kunst und seiner Rezeption bis heute untersucht. Die in unserer Ausstellung präsentierten Ergebnisse lösten eine internationale öffentliche Debatte über den Umgang mit einer der Ikonen des deutschen Expressionismus des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts aus.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/aya-soika-berlin/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression Jewish Identity and Communist Belief.Lea Grundig's Path from Dresden to Palestine and back to DresdenLecture by Eckhart Gillen\, Berlin
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this event HERE \nLecture featuring\nEckhart Gillen\, Independent Curator based in Berlin\, Germany\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nThe lecture tells how the daughter of the Jewish clothing and furniture retailer Moritz Langer leaves her family’s Orthodox milieu to study at the Dresden Art Academy. There she meets art student Hans Grundig. With him she joined the German Communist Party in 1926. From now on she wanted to put her art at the service of the working class.\nAfter returning from exile in Palestine\, she used her art for the newly founded GDR. There she had a career as a professor and as president of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR. In this function\, she unconditionally served the official art policy of the SED and also supported the “anti-Zionist” anti-Semitic policies of the GDR.\nBut the communist Lea Grundig is only one aspect of her life and work. The accusation of being a degenerate artist in the sense of Nazi terminology and the prohibition of pictures and memories of the genocide of the Jews became a test for the loyalty of the faithful communist and self-confident Jew Lea Grundig. \nEckhart Gillen\, Art Historian\, Independent Curator\, born 1947 in Karlsruhe\, Germany\, based in Berlin. Study of art history\, German and Sociology at the University of Heidelberg\, where he received the Doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy. He has organized numerous exhibitions and published widely on Russian\, American\, and German art of thetwentieth century. Among his exhibition catalogs and books are „Amerika –Traum und Depression 1920/40“\, Akademie der Künste\, Berlin 1980; „German Art from Beckmann to Richter: Images of a Divided Country“; Yale University Press 1997; „Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures 1945-1989“\, LACMA\, L.A.\, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg\, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin 2009 (in collaboration with Stephanie Barron); „Feindliche Brüder? Der Kalte Krieg und die deutsche Kunst 1945-1989“\, Berlin 2009; R.B.Kitaj – The Retrospective\, 2012\, Jewish Museum Berlin\, Jewish Museum London and Hamburger Kunsthalle; Art in Europe 1945-1968: Facing the Future\, BOZAR\, Brussels\, ZKM\, Karlsruhe\, Pushkin Museum\, Moscow\, 2016/17; „FLASHES OF THE FUTURE. The Art of the 68ers“\, Ludwig Forum\, Aachen\, 2018; „Constructing the World. Art and Economy 1919 to 1939 in USA\, Soviet Union and Germany“ in the Kunsthalle Mannheim\, 2018/19.\nNumerous distinctions\, including „einheitspreis – Bürgerpreis zur deutschen Einheit“ 2003 (bestowed by the Federal Agency for Civic Education)\, AICA-USA 2009 for Best Thematic Museum Show\, and the Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Award 2011 conferred by the foundation Preußische Seehandlung  for unconventional art communication (together with Stefanie Barron). Adjunct professor for art history at the Film University in Potsdam-Babelsberg since 2011. \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression \nSponsored by Allianz Partners. \n\nImage: Lea Grundig\, Discussion (in the Street) Between Workers Belonging to the KPD and the SPD [Diskussion (auf der Straße) zwischen KPD- und SPD-Arbeitern]\, 1930/31\, Linocut\, 10.8 x 14.4 inches [27\,5 × 36\,5 cm]. Akademie der Künste\, Berlin.\n\n  \nJüdische Identität und kommunistischer Glaube \nLea Grundigs Weg von Dresden nach Palästina und zurück nach Dresden \nDer Vortrag erzählt\, wie die Tochter des jüdischen Kleider- und Möbelhändlers Moritz Langer das orthodoxe Milieu ihrer Familie verlässt\, um an der Kunstakademie Dresden zu studieren. Dort trifft sie den Kunststudenten Hans Grundig. Mit ihm tritt sie 1926 in die Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands ein. Sie wollte von nun an ihre Kunst in den Dienst der Arbeiterklasse stellen.\nNach Rückkehr aus dem Exil in Palästina setzt sie ihre Kunst für die neu gegründeten DDR ein. Dort macht sie Karriere als Professorin und als Präsidentin des Verbandes Bildender Künstler der DDR. In dieser Funktion diente sie bedingungslos der offiziellen Kunstpolitik der SED und unterstützte auch die „antizionistische“ in Wahrheit antisemitische Politik der DDR.\nDoch die Kommunistin Lea Grundig ist nur ein Aspekt ihres Lebens und Werkes. Der Vorwurf\, eine entartete Künstlerin im Sinne der Nazi-Terminologie zu sein und das Bilder- und Erinnerungsverbot an den Völkermord an den Juden wurde für die Loyalität der gläubigen Kommunistin und selbstbewußten Jüdin Lea Grundig zu einer Zerreißprobe.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/flight-or-fight-stories-of-artists-under-repression-jewish-identity-and-communist-belieflea-grundigs-path-from-dresden-to-palestine-and-back-to-dresdenlecture-by-eckhart-gillen-berlin/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Zoe Strimpel\, British HistorianRhodes Must Stand: a lightly Jewish perspective on why we must learn to live with the past\, not destroy it
DESCRIPTION:Lecture featuring\nZoe Strimpel\, British Historian and flagship columnist for the Sunday Telegraph\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nSince the Black Lives Matter movement gained new urgency following the police murder of George Floyd\, much material – not just statues and monuments to the past but culture more broadly – has been flagged as racist and therefore undeserving of a continued place in the public sphere. Recently\, Dickens has attracted the condemnation of anti-racists. But nobody has ever\, or is likely to\, pore over the anti-Semitic connotations or history of art or industry. Jews have learned to live with the prominence of Wagner; of authors from Trollope to Kingsley Amis\, with statues to Martin Luther\, and with the ubiquity in Christian architecture and iconography: the Judensau of Cathedrals all around Europe. But in living with the past\, we do not lose out – on the contrary\, we are greatly enriched. \nZoe Strimpel is a historian of gender and intimacy in modern Britain\, and a flagship columnist for the Sunday Telegraph. She is also the author of What the Hell Is He Thinking? All the Questions You Ever Asked About Men Answered (2010)\, The Man Diet: One Woman’s Quest to End Bad Romance (2012) and Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender\, Dating and the Rise of ‘The Single’ (Bloomsbury\, 2020). \nRachel Stern is the Executive Director of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc. in New York. \nThe event is sponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/zoe-strimpel/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression Hans Hofmann:Coming to AmericaLecture by Karen Wilkin\, NY
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this zoom event HERE \nLecture featuring\nKaren Wilkin\, Independent Curator and Critic\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nHans Hofmann (1880-1966) first arrived in the US from Munich in 1930\, to teach a summer art course at the University of California\, Berkeley. He returned twice more\, extending his 1932 visit to pursue teaching opportunities. In 1933\, he decided to remain in the US\, opening the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in 1934. He did not return to Europe until 1949\, for an exhibition in France\, and to Germany until 1962\, for a touring retrospective. Before coming to America\, Hofmann had only drawn for 15 years\, because of the demands of running his Munich school. While he initially used drawing to record his discovery of the US\, he began to paint again in 1934. Many other milestones followed: publication of his book of art theory\, important exhibitions\, representing the US at the Venice Biennale and Documenta\, and more. This talk explores Hofmann’s response to his new country and his New York colleagues. \nKaren Wilkin is a New York-based curator and critic specializing in 20thcentury modernism. The author of monographs on Stuart Davis\, David Smith\, Anthony Caro\, Kenneth Noland\, Helen Frankenthaler\, Giorgio Morandi\, Georges Braque\, and Hans Hofmann\, she has organized exhibitions of their work internationally. She was a juror for the American Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Reviewand a regular contributor to The New Criterionand the Wall Street Journal\,Ms. Wilkin teaches in the New York Studio School’s MFA program. \nRachel Stern is the Director and CEO of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc. in New York. Her book\, The Expressionist Fritz Ascher\, was co-edited with Ori Z. Soltes and published by Wienand in 2016. Raised in Germany and educated at Georg-August Universität Göttingen with an MA in Art History and Economics\, she immigrated to the US in 1994. She worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as an independent writer and curator. Rachel is a recipient of a 2002 NEA Grant and the 2017 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize. \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression \nSponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/flight-or-fight-stories-of-artists-under-repression-hans-hofmann/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200603T170000
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SUMMARY:Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression More Surreal Than Surrealism:Hedda Sterne's Emigration
DESCRIPTION:Watch the event video HERE.\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nConversation featuring \nDr. Sarah Eckhardt\, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond\, VA and \nShaina Larrivee\, Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation in New York\nModerated by \nRachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York \nHedda Sterne (1910-2011) was born in Bucharest\, Romania in 1910 and came of age as an artist in the midst of the Dada and Surrealist movements in Bucharest and Paris. In 1941 she narrowly escaped the Bucharest Pogrom and was one of the fortunate few who managed to leave Europe for the United States amid the refugee crisis. Settling in New York\, she quickly became a part of the artistic community surrounding Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst\, exhibiting her work alongside established European Surrealists as well as rising American artists\, including Jackson Pollock\, Barnet Newman\, and Mark Rothko. Sterne frequently described the United States as “more surreal than Surrealism.” This conversation will explore Sterne’s shift in artistic practice\, from the Surrealist collage techniques and dream imagery she utilized in Europe\, to her experiments in New York visually expressing the temporal reality of American technology and urban landscapes. \nDr. Sarah Eckhardt\, VMFA’s Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, joined the museum in 2011. She received her BA from Valparaiso University and her MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where she was awarded a Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation\, Hedda Sterne and the Abstract Expressionist Context. At VMFA the Modern & Contemporary department is responsible for the museum’s early 20th-century European holdings as well as the mid-to-late 20th-century and 21st-century collections\, including photography and the sculpture garden. Her current exhibition\, Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop\, about a collective of fifteen African American photographers founded in New York in 1963\, just opened on February 1. She is also working on an exhibition and database project that will digitally reunite VMFA’s Rosy and Ludwig Fischer Collection of German Expressionist art with other portions of the family’s collection that were dispersed or lost after Hitler seized power and the Fischers were forced to flee Germany. She recently participated in the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program which focused on increasing Nazi-era restitution research networks between German and American museum professionals. \nShaina Larrivee is Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation\, New York\, an organization established by the artist Hedda Sterne and dedicated to exploring her philosophy of art as a process of engagement and discovery. As its first Director\, Larrivee has overseen the organization of the Foundation’s collections and the development of its programming. Previously she served as Managing Editor of the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné project\, and has written and lectured on various topics including research methodology and the stewardship of artists’ legacies. \nRachel Stern is the Director and CEO of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc. in New York. Her book\, The Expressionist Fritz Ascher\, was co-edited with Ori Z. Soltes and published by Wienand in 2016. Raised in Germany and educated at Georg-August Universität Göttingen with an MA in Art History and Economics\, she immigrated to the US in 1994. She worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as an independent writer and curator. Rachel is a recipient of a 2002 NEA Grant and the 2017 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize. \nThe event is part of our monthly series\nFlight or Fight. stories of artists under repression \nSponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/hedda-sterne/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:OTHERNESS AND HIDING.Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.with Celebration of Competition Winners
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE EVENT HERE \nThe University of Richmond Museums and the Fritz Ascher Society present Otherness and Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany\, celebrating the closing of the exhibition Fritz Ascher: Expressionist\, on view at the Harnett Museum of Art.  Keynote speaker is Professor Marion A. Kaplan\, NYU. There is also a celebration of the student winners of the Fritz Ascher competition in prose\, poetry\, or images on paper based on the theme of “Otherness.” \nThe event was opened by Rachel Stern\, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society of Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc.\, New York. \nIn her keynote\, Marion A. Kaplan\, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University\, New York spoke about Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.  What was it like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany? For those trapped in the Nazi terror regime\, mere survival became a nightmare. Those who went underground\, including Fritz Ascher\, endured the terrors of nightly bombings and the even greater fear of being discovered by the Nazis.  All were pressed to the limits of human endurance and loneliness. \nKaplan is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women\, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991)\, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)\, and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore\, 2011). Kaplan is a writer and editor of numerous publications on German-Jewish and women’s history. She has taught courses on German-Jewish history\, European women’s history\, German and European history\, as well as European Jewish history\, and Jewish women’s history. \nFollowing the lecture\, Dr. Ori Z. Soltes from Georgetown University\, Washington\, D.C. recognized the student competition winners. In conjunction with the exhibition\, the Fritz Ascher Society invited students to submit an essay\, a poem\, or an artwork that reflected on the theme of “Otherness.” The winners of the student competition are: \n\nLuis Caceres\, 12thgrade\, Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics\, New York\, NY\nStephen Cain\, 10thgrade\, St. Joseph’s Preparatory School\, Philadelphia\, PA\nBetty Isakov\, 12thgrade\, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County\, NY\nJoseph Murphy\, 10thgrade\, St. Joseph’s Preparatory School\, Philadelphia\, PA\nStella Wright\, 7thgrade\, Tomahawk Creek Middle School\, Midlothian\, VA\n\nThe jurors for the competition were Ori Z. Soltes and Rachel Stern\, Fritz Ascher Society\, and Richard Waller\, Executive Director\, University of Richmond Museums. \nThe event was sponsored by the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\, University of Richmond and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is co-sponsored by Allianz Partners. \nInformation: info@fritzaschersociety.org \nImage: Fritz Ascher\, Self Portrait\, 1953. White and grey gouache over black ink and watercolor on paper\, 18 x 12.4 inches.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/zoom-event-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Housebound and Hiding.From Fritz Ascher in 1942 to Ourselves Today in 2020 Eva Fogelman\, Ori Soltes\, Rachel Stern
DESCRIPTION:WATCH THE EVENT HERE \nJoin us as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Fritz Ascher’s death by discussing the psychological repercussions of having to go into hiding for a long stretch of time–especially for someone who was almost stereotypically a “sensitive artist.” This topic seems particularly relevant to conditions right now\, when so many of us are in hiding. \nDr. Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist\, psychotherapist\, author and filmmaker. She is in private practice in New York City and was co-founder and co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas at Training Institute for Mental Health\, and Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers\, ADL (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)\, currently co-director Child Development Research (includes International Study of Organized Persecution of Children). Dr. Fogelman is co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process and Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. She is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust(PBS). Dr. Fogelman is a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.Her hundreds of writings appear in professional as well as popular publications.  Dr. Fogelman is a pioneer in therapeutic interventions for generations of the Holocaust and related historical traumas\, and is a frequent consultant and speaker nationally and internationally. \nDr. Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines\, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum\, and has curated more than 85 exhibitions there and in other venues across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 21 books and scores of articles and essays. Some of his recent books include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; Searching for Oneness: Mysticism in Judaism\, Christianity and Islam; Untangling the Web: Why the Middle East is a Mess and Always Has Been;andTradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture. \nRachel Stern is the Director and CEO of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc. in New York. Her book\, The Expressionist Fritz Ascher\, was co-edited with Ori Z. Soltes and published by Wienand in 2016. Raised in Germany and educated at Georg-August Universität Göttingen with an MA in Art History and Economics\, she immigrated to the US in 1994. She worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as an independent writer and curator. Rachel is a recipient of a 2002 NEA Grant and the 2017 Hans and Lea Grundig Prize. \nIn conjunction with the exhibition “Fritz Ascher\, Expressionist” at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\, University of Richmond\, Richmond\, VA (CLOSED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS). \nThe event is sponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/housebound-and-hiding/
LOCATION:1014 – space for ideas\, 1014 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T180000
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SUMMARY:Panel DiscussionExpressionisms: Germany and the United States Camp Concert Hall  Modlin Center for the Arts Richmond\, VA
DESCRIPTION:February 12\, 2020\n6:00-8:00pm\nCamp Concert Hall\nModlin Center for the Arts\n453 Westhampton Way\nRichmond\, VA 23173\nInformation: 804-289-8276 \nPanel Discussion\nExpressionisms: Germany and the United States \nAmong the diverse descriptive labels attached to the art of Fritz Ascher\, perhaps none is more evocative and distinct than “expressionist.” In the context of visual art\, that term has\, over the past century and a half\, connoted the articulation of strong emotion–through color\, brush work\, and the aggressive representation of figures and the elements of nature. This discussion will consider ways in which these features\, particularly in painting\, can explore and have explored embodying emotion and provoking it in the viewer. Also discussed will be the relationships of political identity\, the workings of the unconscious mind\, and the realm of the spiritual to the work of Ascher and other important artists\, before and contemporary with him\, both in Europe and the United States \nModerated by\nSarah Eckhardt\, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art\, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, Richmond \nWith speakers: \nEckhart Gillen\, Independent Curator\, Berlin\n“German and American Expressionism 1914\, 1933 and 1941: Franz Marc\, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Mark Rothko. Manifestations of National Identity and the Break of Civilization” \nElizabeth Berkowitz\, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow\, Rockefeller Archive Center\n“Fritz Ascher and Ideological Color in Modern Art” \nOri Z. Soltes\, Teaching Professor\, Center for Jewish Civilization\, Georgetown University\, Washington D.C.\n“Expressionism and Spirituality” \nThe event is sponsored by the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\, University of Richmond and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is co-sponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/panel-discussionexpressionisms-germany-and-the-united-states-joel-and-lila-harnett-museum-of-art-university-of-richmond-richmond-va/
LOCATION:Modlin Center for the Arts\, University of Richmond\, Richmond\, Virginia\, 453 Westhampton Way\, Richmond\, VA\, 23173\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200116T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200116T141500
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SUMMARY:Rachel Stern: Curator's Walk-Through Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art  University of Richmond Richmond\, VA
DESCRIPTION:January 16\, 2020\n1:30-2:15pm\nCurator’s Walk-Through \nJoel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\nUniversity of Richmond Museums\n453 Westhampton Way\nRichmond\, VA 23173\nInformation: 804-289-8276 \nPlease join Rachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized\, and Banned Art and curator of “Fritz Ascher\, Expressionist” for a walk through the exhibition. \nThe event is sponsored by the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\, University of Richmond and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is co-sponsored by Allianz Partners.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/rachel-stern-gallery-conversation-joel-and-lila-harnett-museum-of-art-university-of-richmond-richmond-virginia/
LOCATION:Modlin Center for the Arts\, University of Richmond\, Richmond\, Virginia\, 453 Westhampton Way\, Richmond\, VA\, 23173\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception Fritz Ascher: Expressionist Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond\, Richmond\, VA
DESCRIPTION:January 15\, 2020 from 6:00 to 8:00pm \n6:00-7:00pm   Lecture\nRachel Stern\, Curator and Director Fritz Ascher Society\n“Forgotten but not Lost: The German Expressionist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970)”\n7:00-8:00pm   Opening Reception and Exhibition Preview \nFritz Ascher: Expressionist \nJoel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art\nUniversity of Richmond Museums\n453 Westhampton Way\nRichmond\, VA 23173\nInformation: 804-289-8276 \nExhibition on view: January 16 – May 24\, 2020 \nWatch the video of the lecture here. \n“Fritz Ascher: Expressionist” presents paintings and works on paper by a Jewish artist who belonged to Germany’s Lost Generation – those whose careers were interrupted or destroyed by the Nazi terror regime. Coming to maturity during the Weimar Republic\, Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) was taken under the wing of prominent Berlin painter Max Liebermann and studied in Koenigsberg and Berlin. He traveled to Oslo\, where he met Edvard Munch\, and Munich\, where he associated with the artists of Blauer Reiter and the Simplicissimus group. Ascher’s early work is steeped in old myths\, spirituality\, and reflections on the human condition. From 1933 he was forbidden to produce\, exhibit\, or sell his art. He was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1938\, and from December he was incarcerated in Potsdam prison for five months. In 1942 Ascher went into hiding in Berlin\, writing poetry. He returned to painting after the war\, expressing his inner turmoil in colorful\, mystical landscapes devoid of human figures. \nFritz Ascher: Expressionist is organized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc. and curated by director Rachel Stern. Support for the catalogue was provided by Reinwald GmbH\, Leipzig.\nThe exhibition and programs at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art are co-sponsored by Allianz Partners.\nThey are made possible in part with funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/opening-reception-fritz-ascher-expressionist-joel-and-lila-harnett-museum-of-art-university-of-richmond/
LOCATION:Modlin Center for the Arts\, University of Richmond\, Richmond\, Virginia\, 453 Westhampton Way\, Richmond\, VA\, 23173\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T163000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Welcoming the Stranger. Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary ImplicationsGeorgetown University\, Washington D.C.
DESCRIPTION:Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications\nOne of the signal moments in the narrative of the biblical Abraham is his insistent and enthusiastic reception of three strangers. That moment is a beginning point of inspiration for all three Abrahamic traditions as they evolve and develop the details of their respective teachings. On the one hand\, welcoming the stranger by remembering “that you were strangers in the land of Egypt” is enjoined upon the ancient Israelites\, and on the other\, oppressing the stranger is condemned by their prophets throughout the Hebrew Bible. These sentiments will be repeated in the New Testament and the Qur’an and elaborated in the interpretive literatures of Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam. \nSuch notions have been seriously challenged on many occasions throughout history—at no time more profoundly than in the 20thand 21stcenturies. The Holocaust began by the decision of the German government in the mid-1930s to turn specific groups of German citizens into strangers\, a process that expanded over the following decade to overrun much of Europe. \nDeliberate marginalization leading to genocide is all too apparent in the next half century from Bosnia and Cambodia to Rwanda. In the aftermath of September 11\, 2001\, the United States—which has wrestled with the question of welcoming the stranger since the turn into mid-19th century—began an emphatic twist toward closing the door on those seeking refuge on these shores by the early 20thcentury. We have arrived at an unprecedented slamming of that door within the last two years—and have marginalized particular religious and ethnic groups. The repercussions may be felt across the globe. \nThe purpose of this conference is to explore these issues\, from both a theoretical and theological perspective and a perspective that examines concrete historical instances within the past 85 years in which aspects of these issues have played out. \nProgram \nMorning \nWelcome and Introduction Ori Z Soltes\, CJC \nRachel Gartner\, Georgetown Jewish Chaplain (“Welcoming the Stanger in Judaism”) \nRev Craig Mousin\, DePaul University; Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (“Welcoming the Stranger in Christianity”) \nZeki Saritoprak\, Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies\, John Carroll University (“Welcoming the Stranger in Islam”) \nLUNCH BREAK  \nAfternoon \nRachel Stern\, Founding Director\, Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Oppressed\, and Banned Artists \nLindsay Balfour\, Assistant Professor\, Communication Studies\, Concordia College\, and author of Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate \nQ&A with all five speakers \nOri Z Soltes introduces and moderates \n  \nThe event is organized by Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization and co-sponsored by the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding\, Department of Theology and Religious Studies\, Georgetown Jewish Life\, and The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, Inc.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/conference-georgetown_university_washingtondc/
LOCATION:Georgetown University\, 3700 O Street NW\, Arrupe Hall Multipurpose Room\, Washington\, DC\, 20057\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191019T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20190810T143001Z
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SUMMARY:Bus Tour with Three Stops: Between Utopia and Exile. Architecture\, Painting and Film in Potsdam around 1930Nikolaisaal\, Potsdam (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:ZWISCHEN UTOPIE UND EXIL\nARCHITEKTUR\, MALEREI UND FILM IM POTSDAM UM 1930 \nEine musikalische Zeitreise mit dem Bus in drei Etappen \nAuf dieser Bustour wird das Potsdam am Ende der Weimarer Republik wieder lebendig. Lassen Sie sich überraschen von der Vielfalt der modernen Architektur und den faszinierenden Kunstwerken jener Zeit\, oft gespiegelt in den wechselvollen Lebenswegen ihrer Schöpfer. Zum Abschluss der Exkursion sind im selten zugänglichen Studio des Filmorchester Babelsberg die großen Hits der UFA-Zeit ebenso zu erleben wie die spannenden Geschichten ihrer Entstehung. \n\n10.30 Uhr Musikalischer Auftakt im Nikolaisaal \nMatthew Rubenstein\, Klavier \n11.00 Uhr Erste Etappe\nDie Architektur der Potsdamer Moderne (Rundfahrt mit Stopps u.a. am Luftschiffhafen)\nReferentin: Prof. Karin Flegel\, Urania Potsdam \n12.30 Uhr Intermezzo: Mittagessen im Kongresshotel Potsdam am Templiner See \n14.30 Uhr Zweite Etappe\n“Fern bist Du\, meine Seele” – Der Expressionist Fritz Ascher als Künstler der verschollenen Generation\n(Vortrag mit Musik im Potsdam Museum)\nReferentin: Dr. Jutta Götzmann\, Direktorin Potsdam Museum\nMusik: Matthew Rubenstein\, Klavier \n16.00 Uhr Dritte Etappe\nMusik und Film in Babelsberg um 1930 (Moderiertes Konzert im Studio des Deutschen Filmorchesters Babelsberg)\nReferentin: Prof. Dr. Ursula von Keitz\, Direktorin Filmmuseum Potsdam\nFilmmusik der UFA-Zeit mit dem Salonorchester des Filmorchester Babelsberg \n\nVeranstalter: Musikfestspiele Sanssouci und Nikolaisaal Potsdam gGmbH
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/between-utopia-and-exile-architecture-painting-and-film-in-potsdam-around-1930-bus-tour-with-three-stops-potsdam-germany/
LOCATION:Nikolaisaal Potsdam\, Wilhelm-Staab-Straße 10-11\, Potsdam\, 14467\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T190022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190407T114351Z
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SUMMARY:J. English Cook: Gallery Conversation Grey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York
DESCRIPTION:April 3\, 2019\, 6:30-7:30pm\nJ. English Cook: Gallery Conversation\nGrey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York (please add map) \nPlease join J. English Cook\, Graduate Curatorial Assistant\, Grey Art Gallery\, and Ph.D. Candidate\, Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU for a gallery conversation. \nThe event is sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/j-english-cook-gallery-conversation-grey-art-gallery-at-nyu-new-york/
LOCATION:Grey Art Gallery\, 100 Washington Square E\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20190125T105619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T142323Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Expressionism for Our Time New York Studio School
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion: Expressionism for Our Time\nNew York Studio School\, 8 West 8th Street\nWednesday\, March 6\, 6:30–7:30 pm \nExpressionism for Our Time features a brief history of Western Expressionism by art critic and curator Karen Wilkin\, followed by a conversation between contemporary artists Rochelle Feinstein\, Judy Glantzman\, and Adrianne Rubenstein with art historian Robert Slifkin. \nWatch the video of the event here. \nKaren Wilkin is an independent curator and critic\, a regular contributor to New Criterion\, the Wall Street Journal\, and Hudson Review. She teaches the New York Studio School’s MFA art history seminars. \nRobert Slifkin is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University. His book Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (University of California Press\, 2013) was awarded the Philips Book Prize. His writing has appeared in October\, American Art\, Artforum\, Oxford Art Journal\, and the Art Bulletin. His next book\, The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace\, 1945-1975 will be published by Princeton University Press next fall. \nRochelle Feinstein’s solo exhibition\, Image of an Image\, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts from November 7 – March 3\, 2019\, followed her three-venue\, critically acclaimed retrospectives in Switzerland and Germany\, 2015-2017.  Feinstein was a professor of painting at the Yale School of Art from 1994-2017 and lives and works in NY. \nJudy Glantzman is a New York-based artist represented by Betty Cuningham Gallery in NY. Glantzman first exhibited in the East Village in the 1980s at Civilian Warfare and the Gracie Mansion Gallery. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, Anonymous is a Woman\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.   \nAdrianne Rubenstein is an artist and curator based in NY. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include The Pit\, Los Angeles\, CA; Cooper Cole\, Toronto\, ON; Reyes Projects\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI; and Fourteen30 Contemporary\, Portland\, OR. Upcoming curatorial projects include Tif Sigfrids\, Athens\, GA\, and Loyal Gallery\, Stockholm. \nOrganized by the New York Studio School as part of its Evening Lecture Series and co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery and the Fritz Ascher Society.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/panel-discussion-expressionism-for-our-time-new-york-studio-school/
LOCATION:New York Studio School\, 8 W 8th St\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190228T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T190603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T140433Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation: Methodology\, Resources\, Issues\, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research Silver Center\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 28\, 6:30 pm\nConversation: Methodology\, Resources\, Issues\, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research\nSilver Center\, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)\, New York \nSharon Flescher\, PhD\, Executive Director\, International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)\, and Lynn Rother\, PhD\, Senior Provenance Specialist\, Museum of Modern Art\, will discuss Nazi-era provenance research as it relates to museums\, collectors\, and the art market. \nThe event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Art History\, Grey Art Gallery and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). \nOffered in conjunction with the exhibition Fritz Ascher: Expressionist\, on view at the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, 100 Washington Square East\, from January 9 to April 6\, 2019.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/conversation-methodology-resources-issues-and-challenges-in-nazi-era-provenance-research-silver-center-new-york/
LOCATION:Silver Center\, 32 Waverly Place\, New York\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190214T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190214T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T190502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T132915Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: People on Sunday\, 1930 Silver Center\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 14\, 6:30 pm\nFilm Screening: People on Sunday\, 1930\nSilver Center\, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)\, New York \nYears before they moved to Hollywood\, four young German filmmakers—later noir masters Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer\, and future Oscar winners Billy Wilder and Fred Zinneman—collaborated on this effervescent\, sunlit silent about city dwellers enjoying a weekend outing in Weimar-era Berlin. Combining documentary footage with dramatic storytelling\, this experimental film became a mainstream hit\, presaging both Italian neorealism and the French New Wave. 73 min.\, black-and-white\, silent. \nIntroduced by Noah Isenberg\, George Christian Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film\, University of Texas at Austin\, and editor Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era. \nThe event is co-sponsored by NYU’s New York Institute for the Humanities\, Grey Art Gallery and The Fritz Ascher Society. Co-presented by The Criterion Collection. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). \nOffered in conjunction with the exhibition Fritz Ascher: Expressionist\, on view at the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, 100 Washington Square East\, from January 9 to April 6\, 2019.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/film-screening-people-on-sunday-1930-silver-center-new-york/
LOCATION:Silver Center\, 32 Waverly Place\, New York\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190212T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T190317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190214T032212Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation: Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 12\, 6:30 pm\nConversation: Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany\nKing Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\n53 Washington Square South \nWhat was it like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany? For those trapped in the Nazi terror regime\, mere survival became a nightmare. Those who went underground\, including Fritz Ascher\, endured the terrors of nightly bombings and the even greater fear of being discovered by the Nazis. All were pressed to the limits of human endurance and loneliness. \nMarion Kaplan\, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History\, NYU\, and\nRachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society and Curator of Fritz Ascher: Expressionist\, will discuss. \nThe event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Grey Art Gallery\, the Fritz Ascher Society\, and the Leo Baeck Institute–New York|Berlin. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). \nOffered in conjunction with the exhibition Fritz Ascher: Expressionist\, on view at the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, 100 Washington Square East\, from January 9 to April 6\, 2019.
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/conversation-hiding-jewish-life-in-nazi-germany-king-juan-carlos-i-of-spain-center-new-york/
LOCATION:King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\, 53 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T185955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T142110Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Stern: Gallery Conversation Grey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York
DESCRIPTION:February 6\, 2019\, 6:30-7:30pm\nRachel Stern: Gallery Conversation\nGrey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York \nPlease join Rachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized\, and Banned Art and curator of “Fritz Ascher\, Expressionist” for a gallery conversation. \nThe event is sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/rachel-stern-gallery-conversation-grey-art-gallery-at-nyu-new-york-2/
LOCATION:Grey Art Gallery\, 100 Washington Square E\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T215019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200303T143120Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: European Modernism and Spirituality CUNY Graduate Center
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion: European Modernism and Spirituality\nCUNY Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue\, Room 9206\nWednesday\, January 30\, 6:00¬–8:00 pm \nThroughout much of the 20th century\, secularism has dominated Western thought\, yet art has often offered both overt and occult connections to spirituality. Fritz Ascher and El Lissitzky reflect this complicated truth in very different but equally compelling ways. \nWatch the video of the event here. \nPanel discussion moderated by Rose-Carol Washton Long\, Professor Emerita of 19th and 20th Century European Art\, CUNY Graduate Center\, with speakers Elizabeth Berkowitz\, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow\, Rockefeller Archive Center; Matthew Drutt\, editor\, writer and independent curator; and Ori Z. Soltes\, Teaching Professor of Jewish Civilization\, Georgetown University. \nSponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center\, CUNY and the Art History Department at The Graduate Center\, CUNY; the Fritz Ascher Society; and the Grey Art Gallery\, NYU. This event is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/panel-discussion-european-modernism-and-spirituality-cuny-graduate-center/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190116T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190116T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T054852
CREATED:20181220T185906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T174424Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Stern: Gallery Conversation Grey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York
DESCRIPTION:January 16\, 2019\, 6:30-7:30pm\nRachel Stern: Gallery Conversation\nGrey Art Gallery at NYU\, New York (please add map) \nPlease join Rachel Stern\, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized\, and Banned Art and curator of “Fritz Ascher\, Expressionist” for a gallery conversation. \nThe event is sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery\, New York University and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19\, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut\, with the support of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/rachel-stern-gallery-conversation-grey-art-gallery-at-nyu-new-york/
LOCATION:Grey Art Gallery\, 100 Washington Square E\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Past Events
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