Events

2026-03-06T00:00:00-05:00
  • Plunderer. The Life and Time of a Nazi Art Thief
    Screening followed by Q+A with producer John Friedman
    Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, New York

    Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Hermann Goering’s art dealer, Bruno Lohse, prospered by selling stolen art for decades after WWII, while Jewish families struggled to regain their paintings and memories. Captured and interrogated by the Monuments Men after the war, he served a brief prison sentence. After his release, he dealt profitably in stolen art for sixty years after the war, selling to collectors, galleries, and major museums. Highlighting stories of Holocaust survivors working to reclaim their families' lost artworks, Plunderer reveals the failures of post-war justice and the continuing complicity of governments and the art trade. Screening followed by Q+A with producer John Friedman. In partnership with The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art. Director: Hugo Macgregor Year: 2024 Runtime: [...]

    $18.00
  • “There is something mad about the art”
    The German-Jewish Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim and his Heirs’ Fight for Restitution
    Presentation by Journalist Michael Sontheimer, Berlin (Germany)

    ONLINE VA, United States

    Journalist and author Michael Sontheimer speaks about Alfred Flechtheim, who was born in 1878 in Münster as the son of a wealthy German Jewish grain dealer. He was trained as a trader but did not want to stay in the family business. As he was fascinated with art, he left his hometown and moved to Düsseldorf, where he opened a gallery in 1913. Image above: Rudolf Großmann, Alfred Flechtheim, 1922-27. Pencil, ink, and gouache on paper, 5.3 x 3.8 in. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Freiburg (Germany) G 62/008 b. After serving in the German Army during the First World War, in 1921 he opened a second gallery in Berlin, the place to be in the 1920s. [...]

    Free