This Zoom lecture series, hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, investigates artists whose life and art were impacted by the German Nazi terror regime 1933-1945.
Upcoming Lectures
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980): Modern Maverick
Presentation by Alison de Lima Greene
Houston (TX)
May 21, 2025
Making Way for Berthe Weill—Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
Featuring Lynn Gumpert
New York (NY)
January 22, 2025
The Stick Men
Featuring Karli Wurzelbacher, PhD
Huntington (New York)
July 24, 2024
An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
Conversation with author Benjamin Balint, Jerusalem
and Ori Z Soltes, Washington DC
April 3, 2024
“In Hitler’s Munich:
Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism”
A Book Talk by Michael Brenner, PhD,
Munich (Germany) and Washington DC
January 31, 2024
“Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz”
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
London (UK)
June 1, 2022
“ART FOR NO ONE.
Artists in Germany between 1933 and 1945”
Lecture by Ilka Voermann, PhD,
Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
May 18, 2022
“Fritz Ascher (1893-1970):
Coming back to Life
Featuring Karen Wilkin and Elizabeth Berkowitz, PhD
December 8, 2021
“Eva Hesse (1936–1970):
Returning to the Source?”
Featuring Eva’s sister Helen Charash and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD
October 13, 2021
“Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) –
A Life Dedicated to Art”
Lecture by Martina Weinland
June 2, 2021
“Painting as an Act of Resistance.
The artist Felix Nussbaum”
Lecture by Anne Sibylle Schwetter,
October 7, 2020
“The difficult case of Painter Emil Nolde”
Lecture by Aya Soika,
September 3, 2020
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