Events

2026-02-07T00:00:00-05:00
  • Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression

    Jewish Identity and Communist Belief.
    Lea Grundig’s Path from Dresden to Palestine and back to Dresden
    Lecture by Eckhart Gillen, Berlin

    1014 - space for ideas 1014 5th Avenue, New York, New York, NY, United States

    Watch the video of this event HERE Lecture featuring Eckhart Gillen, Independent Curator based in Berlin, Germany Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York The 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. After 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 [...]

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