Rachel Stern2026-08-13T07:03:53-04:00July 28th, 2026|Newsletter|
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? Please share your ideas, opinions and thoughts in our first ever survey: ENTER THE SURVEY HERE Thank you for taking the time - we very much appreciate your feedback. 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 [...]
Rachel Stern2026-05-21T07:16:30-04:00April 27th, 2026|Events, Lectures, Past Events|
In this online lecture Anne Uhrlandt will present the forgotten story of once prominent German Jewish artist and collector Eugen Spiro (April 18, 1874, Wrocław - September 26, 1972, New York City). During her two-year research project, Uhrlandt reconstructed the artist’s biography and the fate of his looted collection by bringing together evidence and sources from numerous international archives. Two case studies about specific stolen objects highlight the dramatic events following both s the Nazi government ‘s expulsion of Spiro from his profession, robbing him of his sources of income, and the theft of his art collection, which included both his own works of art and works of art by other artists. The case studies demonstrate the potential of [...]
Rachel Stern2018-12-04T12:17:07-05:00July 4th, 2018|Newsletter|
Dear Friends,I am so very excited today to share new insights into Fritz Ascher’s work. Fritz Ascher’s Dancers from 1921 is a drawing that has dazzled and fascinated me since I saw it first. In the Fritz Ascher exhibition catalogue, I described the eight female and male dancers as “dancing in a circle in naked ecstasy,” “mythical figures in timeless space” (p. 220). Looking at Ascher’s drawing, Henri Matisse’s Dance from 1910 comes to mind, where “the rhythm of the bodies swaying in dance becomes the sole theme of a painting for the first time.” Commonly recognized as a key point of Matisse's career and in the development of modern painting, it was painted for the Russian businessman and art [...]
