Dear Friends,
Summertime! How do you recharge?
Today we want to hear even more from you. Recently, we invited you to join us for New York in-person events – do you want to see more of that?
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This month, we invite you to meet Suzanne Loebl, who has a dramatic life story to tell, which informs her research interests:
WEDNESDAY, August 12, 12:00PM ET online
Lost and Sometimes Found:
Suzanne Loebl’s Encounter with Nazi-Plundered Art
and Its Sometime Restitution
Suzanne Loebl in Conversation with Ori Z Soltes
Yussuf Abbo, Bust of Dr. Hugo Bamberger, Suzanne’s father, n.d. Courtesy Suzanne Loebl
Born in Germany, Suzanne Loebl and her family left for Belgium in 1938, and were lucky enough to be hidden there after the Nazis overran the country. She survived to carve out a diverse career as a writer, including books that focus on the visual arts and museums. Her most recent volume, Plunder and Survival, draws from her passion for art and her fascination with the story of both the Nazi obsession and theft of cultural property and the winding trajectory of attempts to restore plundered artworks to the families or institutions from which they were stolen. In this Zoom program Loebl will engage in a dialogue with Ori Z Soltes, Co-Founder and Chair of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. The discussion will offer a dynamic interweave of personal anecdote and ideas of universal consequence, mediated by unique visual images.
This event is part of the online series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.
Are you traveling in Germany or just generallyJewish Places marks places and locations, offers walks and life stories, as well as a wide range of articles and deep dives into Jewish topics and locations. Expand your knowledge of Jewish culture, past and present.
And if you are in Berlin, you can walk On the Trail of Fritz Ascher:
RECENT RECORDINGS
We invite you to watch, re-watch and pass on the recording of our JULY events, which both were focused on women photographers who studied at the Bauhaus:
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
This is the exhibition in Berlin that our virtual talk on July 22nd relates to:
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte is on view until November 15 at the Jewish Museum New York.
The exhibition sheds new light on the role that Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers shaping modernist aesthetics in early 20th-century Vienna and beyond.
With more than 200 objects by some 30 Jewish women artists on view, the exhibition is organized thematically to reveal the extraordinary range and technical prowess of the women of the Wiener Werkstätte across mediums. A special emphasis is placed on Vally Wieselthier and Felice Rix-Ueno, whose prolific work, in ceramics and textile design respectively, has had lasting influence on these disciplines. The exhibition also provides a meaningful reintroduction to the work of artists whose work is less well-known today, and a platform for exploring their impact in the context of art and design histories.
New Woman, New Vision. Women Photographers of the Bauhaus is on view until October 4, 2026 at Museum für Fotografie in Berlin (Germany)
Outstanding women photographers have been around since the invention of photography in the early 19th century. They experimented with photographic and artistic techniques and probed the boundaries of the new medium. So too did the women photographers of the Bauhaus. They observed the world around them through the camera lens and often captured subjects from novel and unconventional perspectives. The spectrum of their artistic production ranges from figurative portraits and architectural photography to abstract photographic experimentation.
