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SUMMARY:"Fritz Ascher: Themes and Variations"A Digital Exhibition Experience
DESCRIPTION:This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). Ascher’s career extended from prior to the First World War until the late 1960s. However\, Ascher’s artistic trajectory was interrupted due to persecution under National Socialism\, and he spent much of the Second World War in hiding\, concealed in a family friend’s basement. Ascher’s work consequently encompasses both the vibrant artistic scene in early-20th-century Germany\, as well as the trauma and aesthetic shifts consequent of Ascher’s persecution and deprivations during the twelve years of the Nazi regime. \nThese selected works are representative not only of critical moments in Ascher’s personal and artistic development\, but also of key themes that occupied Ascher’s attention throughout his career. Variations in certain ideas\, motifs\, and subjects in Ascher’s work betray the traumatic impact of Nazi oppression as much as they equally speak to Ascher’s personal and artistic growth over time. Similarly\, Ascher’s persistent affection for particular subjects provides insight into Ascher’s fortitude as a human being: an individual who\, even in the most dire of circumstances\, continued to use music\, poetry\, and theatrical paradigms as lenses through which to engage with the world. \nPlease explore the multi-faceted content with videos and interviews\, photos and artworks\, short introductions and scholarly texts that can be discovered through the links in every image description!
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SUMMARY:Kafka’s last Unknown: The Story and Character of his Drawings  Presentation by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher\, Zurich (Switzerland)
DESCRIPTION:Locked away for decades following also a history of persecution\, the drawings of the iconic 20th-century writer Franz Kafka remained one of the final unknowns of his work. In 2021\, the literary scholar Andreas Kilcher brought them to light.\nImage above: Franz Kafka\, Drawing of a whip-wielding jockey on a horse vaulting over an obstacle. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREFranz Kafka\, Drawing of a male figure\, entitled “The Dancer” by Kafka’s executor Max Brod. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nFranz Kafka\, A Beggar and a Generous Elegant Man\, 1906. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nThe year 2021 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by Franz Kafka that had been kept under lock and key for decades were made accessible. Although Kafka is renowned for his written work\, his drawings are evidence of what his literary executor\, Max Brod\, termed his ‘double talent’. Irresistible and full of fascinating figures\, shifting from the realistic to the fantastic\, the grotesque\, the uncanny\, and the carnivalesque\, they illuminate a previously unknown side of the quintessential modernist author. \nFour new and fascinating stories can be told in relation to Kafka’s drawings: the story of their transmission\, the story of Kafka’s engagement with the visual arts\, the story of Kafka as a draftsman\, and the story of his drawing practice in the context of his writing\, which implies a complex aesthetic question: How are these drawings to be understood in their own right\, yet at the same time as connected to his writing? \n\nFranz Kafka\, The Wantonness of Wealth\, ca. 1905. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \nFranz Kafka\, Drawing showing a figure in full run. Photograph: Ardon Bar-Hama. Max Brod Archive. The National Library of Israel \n\nAndreas Kilcher is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He has been a visiting Professor at Princeton University\, Stanford University\, UC Davis\, and Tel Aviv University. His main areas of research are the relationship between literature and knowledge; Jewish literature and culture; and Kabbalah and esotericism. He has published a wide range of monographs\, edited volumes\, articles\, dictionary entries\, and reviews in these areas. Kilcher’s book on Franz Kafka’s drawings has been translated into more than ten languages and appeared on several bestseller lists. His most recent book\, Kafkas Werkstatt: Der Schriftsteller bei der Arbeit (Kafka’s Workshop: The Writer at Work)\, has also appeared on bestseller lists. He is currently working on a book about Doctor Faustus. \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\n\n\nFranz Kafka. The Drawings was edited By Andreas Kilcher and published by Yale University Press in 2022. \n\nYOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:Cocktail Reception benefiting The Fritz Ascher Society  at the home of Gary Zimmerman Central Park South\, New York\, NY
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to a cocktail reception at the home of Gary Zimmerman on Central Park South in NYC benefiting the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art. Join us for art\, conversation and connection. \n*All food is certified Kosher \nImage above: Marc Chagall\, Mockup for the backdrop of Stravinsky’s Firebird\, 1945. Gouache\, india ink\, pastel\, colored pencil\, and gold paper collage on paper mounted on japanese paper\, 14 13/16 x 24 7/16 in. (37.7 x 62 cm). Collection du Musée National d’Art Moderne\, Centre Pompidou\, Paris © 2026 Marc Chagall / Artists Rights Society (ARS)\, New York / ADAGP\, Paris \n\n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS HERE\nWe look forward to seeing and discussing art\, to honoring its makers\, and to connecting with our heritage and with each other. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Chair:\nCarol Prendergast \n\nKeynote Speaker:\nBella Meyer\nGranddaughter of Marc Chagall\nPhoto by Leanna Kearney\, 2021 \n\n\nKeynote speaker Bella Meyer will share with us her insights about her grandfather Marc Chagall\, and will speak about A Migrant’s Legacy – Marc Chagall’s Response. \n\n\nBella Meyer was born in Paris and raised in Basel\, Switzerland. As Marc Chagall‘s granddaughter\, shegrewup immersed inart.  She received her PhD in Medieval Art History from the Sorbonne in Paris.\nLiving in New York City since her late twenties\, Bella pursued her love for art\, and after teaching Medieval Art History\, focused on the oeuvre of her grandfather’s. She has written and lecturedon his work\, while sharing responsibilities for his estate.Her professional life also led her to create and design stage decorations of all types\, fromdance and theater costumes to puppetry\, from masks and props\, to her current passion for flowersfounding fleursBELLA\, a floral design studio in NYC\, to share the ever–inspiring beauty of each flower’s fleeting story with the world around.
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SUMMARY:Private Tour by Curator Maria Castro There Are No Words: Si Lewen's Parade  The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, NY 10028
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special early tour of the exhibition with curator Maria Castro\, before the museum opens to the public. After the tour\, we’ll gather for coffee and tea and continue the conversation. \n\n\nREGISTRATION CLOSES SUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 15\, 2026.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Parade is an epic cycle of 63 charcoal\, pencil\, and ink drawings conceived by Si Lewen (1918–2016) in the aftermath of World War II. The work unfolds a visual narrative on war\, memory\, and the human condition that is informed by the artist’s extraordinary life. Born in Poland to Jewish parents and raised in Germany\, Lewen fled Nazi persecution with his family in 1933 before immigrating to the United States. While serving in the U.S. Army as one of the Ritchie Boys\, a specialized unit of German-speaking soldiers\, Lewen arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945. The Parade is rooted in the artist’s experience of these events as well as his coming of age during the tumultuous years when\, as he reflected later\, the parades after World War I gave way to the death marches of World War II. \n\n\nImage above: Si Lewen (American\, Lublin\, Poland 1918–2016)\, The Parade\, ca 1950. Manufactured charcoal\, pencil\, crayon\, ink\, scratching\, and hand applied gesso on paperboard\, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 1/16 in. (35.3 × 50.1 × 0.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2024.487.1–.63\, Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan\, New York. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\nREGISTRATION CLOSES SUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 15\, 2026.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSi Lewen (American\, Lublin\, Poland 1918–2016)\, The Parade\, ca 1950. Manufactured charcoal\, pencil\, crayon\, ink\, scratching\, and hand applied gesso on paperboard\, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 1/16 in. (35.3 × 50.1 × 0.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2024.487.1–.63\, Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan\, New York \n\nSi Lewen (American\, Lublin\, Poland 1918–2016)\, The Parade\, ca 1950. Manufactured charcoal\, pencil\, crayon\, ink\, scratching\, and hand applied gesso on paperboard\, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 1/16 in. (35.3 × 50.1 × 0.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2024.487.1–.63\, Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan\, New York \n\n\nExperienced together as a sequence\, the drawings carry viewers from military pageantry to conflict\, devastation\, and mourning through the cumulative force of their imagery. The power of The Parade lies not only in its historical origins but in its ability to speak across generations with urgency\, asking viewers to confront the persistent cycles of violence that continue to shape our world. The exhibition’s title\, There Are No Words\, is inspired by Lewen’s own description of the format of The Parade as a wordless novel in which he explained: “there are no words . . . just the picture itself is the narrative.” At the same time\, the title reflects his conviction that the horrors of war ultimately defy language and description. \n\n“The real horrors of war cannot be imagined and cannot be described. Hell? It’s a fine poetic metaphor\, but the Holocaust is beyond all description\, comprehension\, and belief. And so\, generation after generation parade off to war not ever knowing what they parade into…” (Si Lewen\, unpublished memoir\, 1985-89) \n\n\n\nSi Lewen (American\, Lublin\, Poland 1918–2016)\, The Parade\, ca 1950. Manufactured charcoal\, pencil\, crayon\, ink\, scratching\, and hand applied gesso on paperboard\, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 1/16 in. (35.3 × 50.1 × 0.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2024.487.1–.63\, Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan\, New York \nSi Lewen (American\, Lublin\, Poland 1918–2016)\, The Parade\, ca 1950. Manufactured charcoal\, pencil\, crayon\, ink\, scratching\, and hand applied gesso on paperboard\, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 × 1/16 in. (35.3 × 50.1 × 0.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2024.487.1–.63\, Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan\, New York \n\nMaria Castro is the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. Castro has served as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 2024 and previously held the role of Assistant Curator in the same department since 2018. Castro’s prior experience includes positions as a Leonard A. Lauder Predoctoral Research Fellow in Modern Art at The Met and an internship at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh. She received her PhD and MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. \n\n\n\n\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/si-lewen-tour/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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