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SUMMARY:"Fritz Ascher: Themes and Variations"A Digital Exhibition Experience
DESCRIPTION:This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). Ascher’s career extended from prior to the First World War until the late 1960s. However\, Ascher’s artistic trajectory was interrupted due to persecution under National Socialism\, and he spent much of the Second World War in hiding\, concealed in a family friend’s basement. Ascher’s work consequently encompasses both the vibrant artistic scene in early-20th-century Germany\, as well as the trauma and aesthetic shifts consequent of Ascher’s persecution and deprivations during the twelve years of the Nazi regime. \nThese selected works are representative not only of critical moments in Ascher’s personal and artistic development\, but also of key themes that occupied Ascher’s attention throughout his career. Variations in certain ideas\, motifs\, and subjects in Ascher’s work betray the traumatic impact of Nazi oppression as much as they equally speak to Ascher’s personal and artistic growth over time. Similarly\, Ascher’s persistent affection for particular subjects provides insight into Ascher’s fortitude as a human being: an individual who\, even in the most dire of circumstances\, continued to use music\, poetry\, and theatrical paradigms as lenses through which to engage with the world. \nPlease explore the multi-faceted content with videos and interviews\, photos and artworks\, short introductions and scholarly texts that can be discovered through the links in every image description!
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/fritz-ascher-themes-and-variations/
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SUMMARY:Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman Presentation by Sheri Rosenblum\, San Francisco (CA)
DESCRIPTION:In the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe\, Jewish partisan Faye Schulman carried two extraordinary weapons: a rifle and a camera. After witnessing the murder of her family and the destruction of her community\, she joined the partisans\, documenting daily life\, resistance\, and survival. Her photographs—taken while living and fighting with a partisan unit—are the only known images captured from within a partisan camp.\nThis presentation explores Schulman’s remarkable life through her wartime photography\, highlighting its historical significance and artistic legacy. Drawing from the Pictures of Resistance exhibition\, participants will discover how her images challenge misconceptions about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust while serving as enduring works of documentary photography and visual testimony. \nThis event is part of the online series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression in collaboration with the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF). \nImage above: Faye Schulman\, Forest near Lenin\, Winter 1944. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREFaye Schulman with Detachment\, Forest near Lenin\, Fall 1942. \n\nSheri Rosenblum is the Director of Operations\, Development and Programs for the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF)\, where she has served since 2011. She oversees the organization’s outreach and collaborations with Holocaust institutions and has built lasting relationships with Jewish partisan families. She is a frequent lecturer on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. A graduate of UCLA in Judaic Studies and Brandeis University’s Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service\, Rosenblum has dedicated her career to preserving and sharing the stories of the Jewish partisans through public lectures\, scholarship\, and educational initiatives. \n\nJewish Partisan Educational Foundation: Pictures of Resistance\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/faye-shulman/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Armin Stern. Journeys and Escapes  Presentation by Erik Riedel\, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:The artist Armin Stern (1883–1944)\, born near Pressburg (now Bratislava)\, moved to Frankfurt in 1900 to study painting. Despite numerous travels and periods of study in Paris\, Brittany\, the Netherlands\, and Ticino\, Frankfurt remained the center of his life. After being excluded from an exhibition at the Frankfurt Kunstverein in 1933 because he was a “non-Aryan artist\,” he relocated with his family to Bratislava\, which had by then become part of Czechoslovakia. \nImage above: Armin Stern\, Ascona\, 1928. Watercolor. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREArmin Stern\, Self-Portrait at the Easel\, ca. 1930. Oil on painting board. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nArmin Stern\, Eschenheim Tower (Frankfurt a.M.)\, 1920s. Oil on canvas. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nAs the situation there also grew increasingly perilous\, Stern initially sought to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. By his own account\, the painter had become a Zionist while still a schoolboy; during an extended stay in Eretz Israel in 1933–34\, he had already gained intimate knowledge of the country while simultaneously looking for a place to settle with his family. In 1938\, he obtained an entry visa for the USA; he settled in New York and participated in several exhibitions. After five years of exile in the United States\, Armin Stern died of heart failure in July 1944\, just days before he was due to be naturalized. \nAlthough Stern had been a successful and popular landscape and portrait painter\, he had all but fallen into oblivion. This changed only with the publication of his biography by his granddaughter in 2008 and a cabinet exhibition at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt a year later. Now\, the artist’s estate—gifted by his grandchildren—enriches the art collection of the Jewish Museum. \n\nArmin Stern\, Jerusalem\, 1933. Watercolor\, ink\, and pencil. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \nArmin Stern\, Long Island Beach\, 1940–43. Watercolor. Donated by the descendants of Armin Stern. Jewish Museum Frankfurt \n\nErik Riedel is head of exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and curator of the museum’s Ludwig Meidner Archive. The archive consists of the artistic estates of Ludwig and Else Meidner and several other artists who were forced into exile. Erik Riedel has curated numerous exhibitions on 19th- and 20th-century art\, for instance on Moritz Daniel Oppenheim\, Ludwig and Else Meidner\, Charlotte Salomon\, and Arie Goral. Apart from several exhibitions catalogues he has published the catalogue raisonné of Ludwig Meidner’s sketchbooks and the conference proceedings “Ludwig Meidner. Expressionism\, Ecstasy\, Exile” (2018)\, as well as the catalogue raisonné of Ludwig Meidner’s paintings until 1927 (2023). \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\n\n\nA special exhibition Armin Stern: Painter and Zionist is on view until January 3\, 2027\, in the “Art and Exile” room of the permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. \n\nEXHIBITION INFORMATION\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/armin-stern/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Understanding Past Realities of the Holocaust.Photography versus Art With Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller (Berlin) and Dr. Rachel Perry (Boston)
DESCRIPTION:To mark the November Pogrom of 1938 (euphemistically called “Kristallnacht”)\, a discussion\, “Understanding Past Realities of the Holocaust: Photography versus Art” will take place on 4 November 2026. Historians Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller and Dr Rachel Perry examine how photography and art depicted the Nazi state-orchestrated campaign of terror perpetrated against Jewish men\, women and children across Germany\, Austria and the Sudetenland from 9 to 10 November 1938 (the November Pogrom). The historians ask what photography and art reveal about the lived realities of the victims of the Pogrom\, the interactions surrounding the violence and the broader society in which the violence was perpetrated. \n\nThe event will be live-streamed and recorded. Questions can be submitted through this form. \n\nThe discussion is organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme together with the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations. \n\nPhoto credit: Christoph Kreutzmüller \n\nREGISTRATION LINK \nOPENING REMARKS: \n\n\nMs. Melissa Fleming\, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications\nHis Excellency Mr. Ricklef Johannes Beutin\, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations\nMs. Rachel Stern\, Executive Director\, The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\n\nSPEAKERS: \n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller\, Deputy Project Director\, LastSeen: Pictures of Nazi-Deportations\, Selma Stern Center for Jewish History\, Berlin\, Germany\nDr. Rachel Perry\, Art historian\, curator and educator\, Weiss Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and Gratz College\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller \nDr. Rachel Perry \nRachel Stern \n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller\, the Berlin based historian and educator\, is the Deputy Director of the award-winning research project. LastSeen: Pictures of Nazi-Deportations. He studied History and English in Berlin and in the UK. After finishing his doctoral thesis on German banks in the Netherlands (1919-1945) he coordinated an extensive research project on the fate of Jewish owned businesses in Berlin 1930-1945 at the Humboldt University (Berlin) and worked as curator of the segment “Catastrophe” of the new permanent exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin.\nHis numerous publications include the award winning “Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity. 1930-1945” (New York/Oxford 2015) and (with Tal Bruttmann and Stefan Hördler)\, Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. A Photo Album from Auschwitz\, Darmstadt 2019.\nIn honorary office he is the chairman of the Aktive Museum\, Faschismus und Widerstand – a NGO open for anyone interested in dealing with the history of Nazism\, the social conditions which fostered it and the repercussions it continues to have. \n\nDr. Rachel Perry is an art historian and curator specializing in the representation and remembrance of the Holocaust and Second World War in visual culture. She teaches in the Weiss-Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa\, Israel as well as in the “Holocaust and Human Rights” programme at Gratz College\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Dr. Perry is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Getty Foundation\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, the Dedalus Foundation\, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the Yad Vashem Institute\, EHRI\, and CASVA. She is widely published. Her articles have appeared in several journals including Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, History and Memory\, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History\, French Cultural Studies\, RIHA\, Ars Judaica\, and Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in Boston\, United States of America\, where she is working on a manuscript concerning early graphic narratives of the Holocaust. \n\n\nMs. Rachel Stern is the founding director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York. Born and educated in Germany\, Ms. Stern studied Art History and Economics at Georg-August-University in Göttingen. She immigrated to the United States in 1994\, wrote for the AUFBAU and worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has organized numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States\, and has written and lectured extensively about Nazi era persecuted artists\, exile stories\, and culture of memory. Ms. Stern is a 2002 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a 2017 recipient of the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize. Ms. Stern serves on the board of the Fritz Ascher Stiftung at Stadtmuseum Berlin (Germany) and is a member of Aktives Museum Berlin. Among others\, she has served on the jury of the Congressional Art Competition New York and the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize\, and as a panelist for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.\n\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/understanding-past-realities/
LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cocktail Receptionbenefiting the Fritz Ascher Society at the home of Gary ZimmermanCentral Park South\, NYC
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a cocktail reception at the home of Gary Zimmerman on Central Park South in NYC benefitting the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art and celebrating art treasures and their stories buried by Authoritarian regimes. \nEvent Chair:\nCarol Prendergast \nKeynote Speaker:\nBella Meyer\nChagall’s Granddaughter \nA Migrant’s Legacy – \nMarc Chagall’s Response\n \nEvent committee (in formation): \nBetty Ehrenberg\nCheryl Fishbein\nJanet Heit\nPatti Kenner\nSam Konig\nCarol Lipsky\nIlona Oltuski\nSteven Orlikoff\nIan Shapolsky\nOri Z Soltes\nRachel Stern \nREGISTRATION OPENING SOON
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/benefit2026/
LOCATION:Location provided upon registration\, New York\, NY\, United States
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