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“Leben ist Glühn” Der Expressionist Fritz Ascher  


Museum Schlösschen im Hofgarten, Wertheim/Main (Germany)

Museum Schlösschen im Hofgarten Würzburger Str. 30, Wertheim, Germany

The worldwide first Fritz Ascher Retrospective is on view at Museum Schlösschen im Hofgarten in Wertheim/Main until September 9, 2018. Here, a representative group of powerful paintings and drawings spans Ascher's whole oeuvre from first academic studies to monumental Expressionist figure compositions to late landscapes. Fritz Ascher's poems, written while hiding from Nazi persecution, can be discovered as "unpainted paintings" in relation to his artwork. In Wertheim, Ascher’s work can be seen in the context of his supporter Max Liebermann and his teachers Lovis Corinth, Ludwig Dettmann and Curt Agthe, thanks to the Schlösschen’s exquisite collection of Berlin Secession art. (website link) SWR Aktuell reported. (website link) Photos by Elmar Kellner and David Stern. A comprehensive German/English catalogue with [...]

“Umkämpfte Wege der Moderne. Wilhelm Schmid und die Novembergruppe” 


Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte, Potsdam (Germany)

Potsdam Museum Am Alten Markt 9, Potsdam, Germany

The exhibition "Umkämpfte Wege der Moderne. Wilhelm Schmid und die Novembergruppe" is dedicated to the controversial epoch of 1918-1933 and the radical changes during the following period. (link) Some of the artistic pioneers took the 1918/1919 revolution as an opportunity to unite as the "November Group", probably the most prominent political artistic group of the Weimar Republic. These self-proclaimed "revolutionaries of the mind" set out on new paths of artistic expression with their motives, colors and forms, rejecting the old imperial conventions in form and content. The members of the group not only caused a sensation with their revolutionary demand to participate in the new state in all art-related issues. For in the exhibitions - primarily at the Great Berlin [...]

“Leben ist Glühn” Der Expressionist Fritz Ascher 

Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning (Germany)

Kallmann-Museum Schloßstraße 3B, Ismaning, Germany

Last German venue! (link) At the Kallmann-Museum, a representative group of powerful paintings and drawings spans Ascher's whole oeuvre from first academic studies to monumental Expressionist figure compositions to late landscapes. Fritz Ascher's poems, written while hiding from Nazi persecution, can be discovered as "unpainted paintings" in relation to his artwork. With this exhibition, the Kallmann-Museum continues its examination of artists who became victims of the National Socialist art policy. Photos by Gerald Förtsch, Rasmus Kleine and Rachel Stern. A comprehensive German/English catalogue with essays by Jörn Barfod, Eckhart Gillen, Wiebke Hölzer, Ingrid Mössinger, Ori Z. Soltes and Rachel Stern accompanies the exhibition. (catalogue link) The Fritz Ascher retrospective was on view at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück (September 25, [...]

Concert Berliner Frauen-Vokalensemble
St. Matthäus Church, Berlin (Germany)

St. Matthäus Church Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany

Composed by Gisbert Näther, the Berliner Frauen-Vokalensemble (Berlin Women Vocal Ensemble) performs a selection of the Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher’s poems, accompanied by Gerhard Scherer-Ruegert (accordion) and Liana Narubina (piano). Directed by Lothar Knappe. Recordings of the poems "Nachtbild", "Lied der Liebe", "Krieg", "Kein Leben ohne Träne" and "Leben um Leben" can be found here.

Opening Reception
Fritz Ascher, Expressionist
Grey Art Gallery, New York University

Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY, United States

2019, January 8, 6-8pm Opening Reception celebrating Fritz Ascher: Expressionist Grey Art Gallery, New York University 100 Washington Square East, NYC Information: 212/998-6780 Exhibition on view: January 9, 2019 - April 6, 2019 "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 [...]

Fritz Ascher: Expressionist
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York (USA)

Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY, United States

Fritz Ascher: Expressionist presents works by this German Jewish artist, who lived through the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and into the postwar years. With the support of prominent Berlin painter Max Liebermann, Fritz Ascher (1893–1970) studied in Berlin before traveling to Oslo, where he met Edvard Munch. During a prolonged stay in Munich, he associated with the artists who contributed to Simplicissimus magazine, and back in Berlin, he fell in with the artists of Die Brücke. His 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. Interned at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in 1938, he survived the Nazi era mostly in [...]

Rachel Stern: Gallery Conversation
Grey Art Gallery at NYU, New York

Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY, United States

January 16, 2019, 6:30-7:30pm Rachel Stern: Gallery Conversation Grey Art Gallery at NYU, New York (please add map) Please 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. The 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).

Im Reich der Nummern. Wo die Männer keine Namen haben.
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen

Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen Straße der Nationen 22, Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany

“In the Country of Numbers. Where the Men have no Names” tells the story of the detention and exile of November pogrom prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the basis of twelve individual destinies. One of those individuals is Fritz Ascher. The interviews presented in the exhibition with children and grandchildren of the persecuted as well as family biographical photos and documents are new material first shown in Germany, which was researched in the USA, Great Britain and Israel. More than 6,300 Jewish men were brought to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after the November pogroms in 1938. After a few weeks, the vast majority was set free, with the condition to emigrate immediately from Germany. Many have therefore [...]

Panel Discussion: European Modernism and Spirituality
CUNY Graduate Center

Panel Discussion: European Modernism and Spirituality CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9206 Wednesday, January 30, 6:00¬–8:00 pm Throughout 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. Watch the video of the event here. Panel 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. Sponsored by the Center for Jewish [...]