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Mar 18, 2020

Housebound and Hiding.
From Fritz Ascher in 1942
to Ourselves Today in 2020

Eva Fogelman, Ori Soltes, Rachel Stern

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From Fritz Ascher in 1942
to Ourselves Today in 2020

Eva Fogelman, Ori Soltes, Rachel Stern

WATCH THE EVENT HERE Join us as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Fritz Ascher's death by discussing the psychological repercussions of having to go into hiding for a long stretch of time--especially for someone who was almost stereotypically a "sensitive artist." This topic seems particularly relevant to conditions right now, when so many of us are in hiding. Dr. Eva Fogelman is a social psychologist, psychotherapist, author and filmmaker. She is in private practice in New York City and was co-founder and co-director of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas at Training Institute for Mental Health, and Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers, ADL (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous), currently co-director Child Development Research (includes International Study of Organized Persecution of [...]

Mar 3, 2020

OTHERNESS AND HIDING.
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
with Celebration of Competition Winners

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Jewish Life in Nazi Germany.
with Celebration of Competition Winners

WATCH THE EVENT HERE The University of Richmond Museums and the Fritz Ascher Society present Otherness and Hiding: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, celebrating the closing of the exhibition Fritz Ascher: Expressionist, on view at the Harnett Museum of Art. Keynote speaker is Professor Marion A. Kaplan, NYU. There is also a celebration of the student winners of the Fritz Ascher competition in prose, poetry, or images on paper based on the theme of “Otherness.” The event was opened by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society of Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc., New York. In her keynote, Marion A. Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University, New York spoke about Hiding: Jewish Life in [...]

Feb 6, 2020

FRITZ ASCHER SOCIETY Newsletter #30, February 2020

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Dear Friends, “Fritz Ascher, Expressionist” is now on view at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia, until May 24 (link). You can listen to my opening lecture here. “Fritz Ascher, Expressionist” at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art in Richmond, Virginia In every venue, different hanging bring out new aspects of single artworks, and unexpected connections between artworks provide new insights. The Harnett Museum of Art is no exception. For the first time, “The Tortured” (“Der Gequälte”) takes up center stage. It is a monumental painting measuring 59 x 79.4 inches. Fritz Ascher created it in the 1920s, as social and racial tensions in [...]

Jan 1, 2020

ZOOM EVENT
Ori Z. Soltes
Symbols of Faith:
Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions

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Ori Z. Soltes
Symbols of Faith:
Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions

March 23, 2020 12:00-1:30pm ZOOM EVENT ACCESS INFO AFTER TICKET PURCHASE T 212.415.5500 Ori Z. Soltes Symbols of Faith: Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions This lavishly illustrated talk will explore how symbols—numbers, colors, geometric forms, gestures, and figures—are used in convergent and divergent ways in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim visual art; how so many of them derive from earlier imagery in pagan antiquity; and how they continue to be useful and relevant in the art of the modern secular world.

Dec 31, 2019

Panel Discussion
Expressionisms: Germany and the United States
Camp Concert Hall
Modlin Center for the Arts
Richmond, VA

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Expressionisms: Germany and the United States
Camp Concert Hall
Modlin Center for the Arts
Richmond, VA

February 12, 2020 6:00-8:00pm Camp Concert Hall Modlin Center for the Arts 453 Westhampton Way Richmond, VA 23173 Information: 804-289-8276 Panel Discussion Expressionisms: Germany and the United States Among the diverse descriptive labels attached to the art of Fritz Ascher, perhaps none is more evocative and distinct than "expressionist." In the context of visual art, that term has, over the past century and a half, connoted the articulation of strong emotion--through color, brush work, and the aggressive representation of figures and the elements of nature. This discussion will consider ways in which these features, particularly in painting, can explore and have explored embodying emotion and provoking it in the viewer. Also discussed will be the relationships of political identity, the workings of [...]

Dec 10, 2019

FRITZ ASCHER SOCIETY Newsletter #29, December 2019

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Dear Friends, Today I have exciting news: on November 13, the Fritz Ascher Stiftung (Fritz Ascher Foundation) was founded at Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (City Museum Berlin) (link). The foundation's board of trustees consists of Paul Spies, director of Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Eckhart Gillen, art historian and curator, and Rachel Stern, director of the Fritz Ascher Society. from left: Paul Spies, Peter-Stephan Prause, Eva Bünte, Rachel Stern, Martina Weinland, Peter Bünte Ephraim Palais, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin (Germany) The foundation was initiated by private collectors of the artistic work of Fritz Ascher, to give his work a publicly accessible home and to present it in the context of his artistic contemporaries in [...]

Dec 9, 2019

Rachel Stern:
Curator’s Walk-Through
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA

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Curator’s Walk-Through
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA

January 16, 2020 1:30-2:15pm Curator's Walk-Through Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond Museums 453 Westhampton Way Richmond, VA 23173 Information: 804-289-8276 Please join Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art and curator of "Fritz Ascher, Expressionist" for a walk through the exhibition. The event is sponsored by the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond and The Fritz Ascher Society. It is co-sponsored by Allianz Partners.

Nov 28, 2019

Opening Reception
Fritz Ascher: Expressionist
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

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Fritz Ascher: Expressionist
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

January 15, 2020 from 6:00 to 8:00pm 6:00-7:00pm Lecture Rachel Stern, Curator and Director Fritz Ascher Society "Forgotten but not Lost: The German Expressionist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970)" 7:00-8:00pm Opening Reception and Exhibition Preview Fritz Ascher: Expressionist Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond Museums 453 Westhampton Way Richmond, VA 23173 Information: 804-289-8276 Exhibition on view: January 16 - May 24, 2020 Watch the video of the lecture here. "Fritz Ascher: Expressionist" presents paintings and works on paper by a Jewish artist who belonged to Germany's Lost Generation - those whose careers were interrupted or destroyed by the Nazi terror regime. Coming to maturity during the Weimar Republic, Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) was taken under the [...]

Sep 23, 2019

FRITZ ASCHER SOCIETY Newsletter #28, September 2019

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Dear Friends, Fall is finally upon us. Fritz Ascher’s “Landscape with a Cloudy Sky” from c. 1960 captures the rich colors and dramatic light of late afternoon, brought forth with spontaneous, dynamic brushstrokes that characterize the artist’s late work. Fritz Ascher, Landscape with a Cloudy Sky, 1960s. Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 37.4 in. While he was hiding from the Nazis 1942-1945, the artist wrote: I have spent the summer re-reading the poems I have access to, marveling at their rich verbal imagery and thinking about a publication of this powerful manifestation of the artist’s creativity, which translates so easily into disciplines other than the visual [...]

Aug 10, 2019

Bus Tour with Three Stops: Between Utopia and Exile.
Architecture, Painting and Film in Potsdam around 1930
Nikolaisaal, Potsdam (Germany)

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Architecture, Painting and Film in Potsdam around 1930
Nikolaisaal, Potsdam (Germany)

ZWISCHEN UTOPIE UND EXIL ARCHITEKTUR, MALEREI UND FILM IM POTSDAM UM 1930 Eine musikalische Zeitreise mit dem Bus in drei Etappen Auf dieser Bustour wird das Potsdam am Ende der Weimarer Republik wieder lebendig. Lassen Sie sich überraschen von der Vielfalt der modernen Architektur und den faszinierenden Kunstwerken jener Zeit, oft gespiegelt in den wechselvollen Lebenswegen ihrer Schöpfer. Zum Abschluss der Exkursion sind im selten zugänglichen Studio des Filmorchester Babelsberg die großen Hits der UFA-Zeit ebenso zu erleben wie die spannenden Geschichten ihrer Entstehung. 10.30 Uhr Musikalischer Auftakt im Nikolaisaal Matthew Rubenstein, Klavier 11.00 Uhr Erste Etappe Die Architektur der Potsdamer Moderne (Rundfahrt mit Stopps u.a. am Luftschiffhafen) Referentin: Prof. Karin Flegel, Urania Potsdam 12.30 Uhr Intermezzo: Mittagessen im Kongresshotel [...]

Aug 9, 2019

Conference: Welcoming the Stranger. Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

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Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Welcoming the Stranger: Abrahamic Hospitality and Its Contemporary Implications One of the signal moments in the narrative of the biblical Abraham is his insistent and enthusiastic reception of three strangers. That moment is a beginning point of inspiration for all three Abrahamic traditions as they evolve and develop the details of their respective teachings. On the one hand, welcoming the stranger by remembering “that you were strangers in the land of Egypt” is enjoined upon the ancient Israelites, and on the other, oppressing the stranger is condemned by their prophets throughout the Hebrew Bible. These sentiments will be repeated in the New Testament and the Qur’an and elaborated in the interpretive literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Such notions have [...]

Aug 7, 2019

“Fritz Ascher, Expressionist”
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (USA)

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Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (USA)

"Fritz Ascher: Expressionist" presents works by this German Jewish artist, who lived through the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and into the postwar years. With the support of prominent Berlin painter Max Liebermann, Fritz Ascher (1893–1970) studied in Berlin before traveling to Oslo, where he met Edvard Munch. During a prolonged stay in Munich, he associated with the artists who contributed to Simplicissimus magazine, and back in Berlin, he fell in with the artists of Die Brücke. His early work is steeped in old myths, spirituality, and reflections on the human condition. From 1933 he was forbidden to produce, exhibit, or sell his art. Interned at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in 1938, he survived the Nazi era mostly in [...]