Fritz Ascher Society
Ruth Morley and Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor Artists on Film
Film Screening and Conversation with Director Melissa Hacker
ONLINE
VA, United States
Join film director Melissa Hacker in conversation with Rachel Stern about My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports. In the talk, Melissa will show a new short film on the Kindertransports, 256,000 miles from home, which travels with four Kindertransport survivors as they retrace the journey they took 80 years earlier, as unaccompanied child refugees. In the nine months just prior to World War II close to 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. These children were rescued by the Kindertransport movement. Most of the children never saw their parents again. Those courageous parents who had the strength to send their children off to an unknown fate soon [...]
The Three Exiles of the German-born artist Samson Schames (1898-1967)
Presentation by Annika Friedman (Germany), Rachel Dickson, PhD (UK) and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD (USA)
ONLINE
VA, United States
In this virtual event, the three exiles of the German-born artist Samson Schames (1898-1967) will be discussed. Annika Friedman (Germany) will elaborate on the artist’s beginnings in Frankfurt, Rachel Dickson, PhD (UK) will give an insight into the work he made in British exile, and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD (USA) will speak about the work he created in his new home, New York. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A. Samson Schames came from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). With the support of his uncle, renowned gallery owner Ludwig Schames, he made his way into the 1920s art scene and began his training as a painter, graphic artist, and stage designer. Schames’ designs, [...]
Matisse at War. Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France
Book talk by Christopher C. Gorham
ONLINE
VA, United States
When the Degenerate Art exbibit opened in Munich in the summer of 1937, works by notable foreign modernists were denigrated along with German artists. Henri Matisse’s Blue Window (1913) was legally seized by the Nazi regime for inclusion in the traveling exhibit, and his work was banned from German museums. REGISTER HERE If you are interested but can’t attend the event, please register anyways and you will receive the link to the recording. Participating in the event enables you to ask questions and be part of the discussion following the talk. Henri Matisse was among the modernists derided by the Nazis. That did not stop them from stealing his art. At the Jeu [...]
