Fritz Ascher Society
SURVIVAL AND INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY:
The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, Oregon
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
724 NW Davis St, Portland, OR, United States
Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana is a unique and powerful exhibition that explores the role of art and creativity, bringing the past into the present by focusing on three generations of artists from the same family. Alice Lok Cahana (1929-2017) was a Holocaust survivor who pledged she would become an artist if she survived the war. Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, Alice’s oldest son, is a poet and survivor of a major stroke. Kitra Cahana, Ronnie’s daughter, is a filmmaker and photographer. This exhibition reveals how the tragedy of the Holocaust impacted multiple generations of a family and how each member transformed the destructive trauma of the Shoah into [...]
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 Michael Sontheimer will speak 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. 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. He brought works from modern French artists like Picasso, Braque, Chagall, and others to Germany. He also made German painters like Max Beckmann, George Grosz, and Paul Klee widely known. [...]
Survival and Intimations of Immortality:
Artist and Curator Talk
ONLINE
VA, United States
Join curator Ori Z Soltes, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana for a conversation about Survival and Intimations of Immortality: The Art of Alice Lok Cahana, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana moderated by Rachel Stern. This unique and powerful exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the role of art and creativity, bringing the past into the present by focusing on three generations of artists from the same family. The artists and curatorial team will share their insights about the work in the exhibition, how the show was made, and the impact it had, and share more insight into the remarkable life and work of Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana. OJMCHE will send [...]
The ability to imagine the live of ‘others’
The photographer Ellen Auerbach and the graphic designer Lea Grundig in Palestine
Presentation by Eckhart Gillen, PhD, Berlin (Germany)
ONLINE
VA, United States
The presentation introduces photographer Ellen Auerbach and graphic artist Lea Grundig, two Jewish artists who used their artistic means to process their escape and their new life in Palestine. Image above: Ellen Auerbach, „Shine“ Jaffa, Palestine, 1935, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, c VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2024. REGISTER FOR ONLINE EVENT Ellen Auerbach, No Title [Self Portrait in Mirror, Palestine], 1934, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, c VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2024 Ellen Auerbach, Palestine 1934, Jaffa, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, c VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2024 The two young women had been torn from their successful lives in Germany and found themselves in a conflict-ridden country [...]
