Leipzig
Memory, Empathy and Image:
The Art of Luise Schröder (Germany)
and Kitra Cahana (Canada)
1014 - space for ideas
1014 5th Avenue, New York, New York, NY, United States
Discussion with artists Luise Schröder (Germany) and Kitra Cahana (Canada) Moderated by Ori Z Soltes, PHD Teaching Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC Introduced by Rachel Stern Director and CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York NY This program explores the work of two young artists -- Kitra Cahana, from Canada; and Luise Schroeder, from Germany -- whose photography, documentary filmmaking and other work have been informed by an acute awareness of the myriad complications that have beset diverse individuals and groups within the complexities of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world. Their inspirational sources range from the Holocaust to the Black Lives Matter movement as, in similar and yet very different ways, they [...]
“Vorhang auf für Emmy Rubensohn! Musikmäzenin aus Leipzig”
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Mendelssohn Foyer, Leipzig, Germany
“Curtain Up for Emmy Rubensohn! Music Patron from Leipzig” Music patron, concert manager, salonière and letter writer - this is roughly how you could describe Emmy Rubensohn's profile. An exhibition that can be seen between November 10 and December 19, 2021 in the Mendelssohn Foyer of the Gewandhaus Leipzig - at a location that Emmy Rubensohn is connected with in a special way. On the one hand, she was born in Leipzig in 1884 as the daughter of the Jewish entrepreneurial family Frank, who owned a textile factory there. On the other hand, even as a young girl she was a passionate concert-goer who was particularly attracted to the Gewandhaus concerts. In any case, she was busy collecting autographs [...]
Emmy Rubensohn! Netzwerkerin und Musikförderin – von Leipzig bis New York
June 25 – January 14, 2024
Museen im GRASSI, Leipzig, Germany
Museen im GRASSI
Johannisplatz 5-1, Leipzig, Germany
Emmy Rubensohn! Networker and Music Patron - from Leipzig to New York Emmy Rubensohn (1884-1961) was a networker, music patron, concert manager and author of letters. Born in Leipzig in 1884 as the daughter of the Jewish entrepreneurial family Frank, she attended Gewandhaus concerts at an early age and collected autographs from prominent artists of her time. After marrying Ernst Rubensohn in 1907, she moved to Kassel, where the couple turned their house into a cultural meeting place, where composers and performers such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Walter Braunfels or Ernst Krenek, or visual artists such as the painter Oskar Kokoschka or the sculptor Benno Elkan guested. Thanks to a "residency grant", Krenek was able to complete his opera "Jonny [...]
