Rachel Stern2024-12-12T19:30:39-05:00November 26th, 2024|Newsletter|
Dear Friends, What a whirlwind of a month this was, with the opening of the important new Fritz Ascher exhibition, "Love and Betrayal - The Expressionist Fritz Ascher from New York Private Collections" at the House of the Graphic Collection, Augustinermuseum in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). This is the first exhibition that focusses on works on paper created by Fritz Ascher before 1933. In this most immediate and intimate medium, we discover the cheerful and thoughtful artist who was part of the avant-garde in what was then the most exciting cultural city in the world and who spontaneously recorded his thoughts, ideas and experiences on paper, or worked on pictorial themes or compositions. The exhibition is on view [...]
Rachel Stern2024-12-12T19:00:08-05:00October 29th, 2024|Newsletter|
Dear Friends, Breathtaking foliage, crisp weather and the change of clocks are the messengers of fall - a fall that brings an important election in the United States - please vote, everyone! - and the opening of the Fritz Ascher exhibition in Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany. If you can, please join me there! And don't miss the online presentation of this very little known woman artist: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 ONLINE FELKA PLATEK - ARTIST AND COMPANION OF THE PAINTER FELIX NUSSBAUM Presentation by Anne Sibylle Schwetter REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE EVENT Felka Platek, Self-portrait in front of an open window, around 1940. Gouache on drawing paper, 65 x 49.7 cm. Felix-Nussbaum-Haus [...]
Rachel Stern2024-12-12T18:26:36-05:00October 1st, 2024|Newsletter|
Dear Friends, As we prepare to welcome the Jewish New Year on Wednesday night, we reflect on the past while looking ahead with hope and purpose. Thank you for being part of our community, and for supporting our work. In the coming year, we reaffirm our commitment to educate, engage and inspire with engaging and meaningful virtual and in-person events and exhibitions about artists, who were suppressed and persecuted by the German Nazi regime. Looking back 100 years, allows us to learn and think about highly relevant topics. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 ONLINE OTTO ANTOINE (1865-1951): "THE PAINTER OF BERLIN" BETWEEN COMPLIANCE AND DEFIANCE Presentation by KATHLEEN LANGONE REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE EVENT [...]
Rachel Stern2024-10-09T14:25:07-04:00October 1st, 2024|Events, Lectures, Past Events|
Kathleen Langone speaks about the German born painter Otto Antoine (1865-1951), followed by a conversation with Jacquelyn Delin McDonald from the University of Texas at Dallas. Image above: Otto Antoine, Brandenburg Gate, 1928. Oil on cardboard Antoine displayed an early artistic talent but, due to economic circumstances, started a long-term career as a civil servant, initially as a clerk at a local post office. His drawing abilities were soon recognized, and he increasingly was used as a painter, engraver and designer of stamps for the German postal service. They also sent him to many far-flung places outside of Germany (such as Africa) to paint bucolic landscapes of those countries, which were used to promote their [...]
