Rachel Stern2020-11-04T15:01:37-05:00September 17th, 2020|Events, Lectures, Past Events|
WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS EVENT HERE. Lecture featuring Rosa von der Schulenburg, Head of the Art Collection of the Academy of Arts in Berlin Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York John Heartfield (1891-1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. This presentation starts with preliminary remarks about John Heartfield’s bequest in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and shows how it is accessible nowadays. A short introduction of how all began follows, showing the background of the birth of Heartfield’s political photo-montages (World War I, Dada, Communist Party, Willi Münzenberg’s Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung in short AIZ), glances at Heartfield’s first exile stage in Prague and then focuses on [...]
Elizabeth Berkowitz2020-09-16T19:55:58-04:00September 16th, 2020|Lectures|
View a recording of this event HERE. EXCLUSIVE: Watch Annette von Wangenheim's German language documentary film "Tanz unterm Hakenkreuz" from 2003 HERE. Big thanks to Annette von Wangenheim and Sabine Rollberg for making this possible! Gyp Schlicht speaks at 38:02 min. Lecture featuring Sabine Rollberg, Professor Emeritus of Documentary Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and former ARTE Representative and ARTE Commissioning Editor for WDR Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York In times of Nazi Germany, becoming an artist was not the typical career path for women. The „deutsche Frau“ was supposed to represent the “good housewife”, as a mother of many children, not wearing make-up and fancy dresses. The Nazis were refuting [...]
Rachel Stern2020-09-25T07:28:27-04:00August 19th, 2020|Events, Lectures, Past Events|
View a recording this event HERE EXCLUSIVE: Watch Annette von Wangenheim's German language documentary film "Tanz unterm Hakenkreuz" from 2003 HERE. Big thanks to Annette von Wangenheim and Sabine Rollberg for making this possible! Gyp Schlicht speaks at 38:02 min. Lecture featuring Sabine Rollberg, Professor Emeritus of Documentary Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and former ARTE Representative and ARTE Commissioning Editor for WDR Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York In times of Nazi Germany, becoming an artist was not the typical career path for women. The „deutsche Frau“ was supposed to represent the “good housewife”, as a mother of many children, not wearing make-up and fancy dresses. The Nazis were refuting what [...]
Rachel Stern2020-11-29T20:32:16-05:00August 7th, 2020|Events, Past Events|
View a recording of the event HERE. Lecture featuring Aya Soika, Professor of Art History at Bard College Berlin, Germany Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York The German Expressionist Emil Nolde is arguably one of most prominent victims of the Nazis' art politics: No other painter had so many works confiscated, or was presented as prominently in the show „Degenerate Art,“ which opened in Munich in July 1937. Yet, his position differs fundamentally from that of many other artists who will be presented in the Fritz Ascher Society's lecture series "From Flight to Fight": Nolde was not just a victim but also a loyal supporter of the regime whose world views were radicalized by antisemitic propaganda in [...]
Rachel Stern2020-08-05T22:20:06-04:00June 25th, 2020|Events, Past Events|
Watch the video of this event HERE Lecture featuring Eckhart Gillen, Independent Curator based in Berlin, Germany Moderated by Rachel Stern, Executive Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York The lecture tells how the daughter of the Jewish clothing and furniture retailer Moritz Langer leaves her family's Orthodox milieu to study at the Dresden Art Academy. There she meets art student Hans Grundig. With him she joined the German Communist Party in 1926. From now on she wanted to put her art at the service of the working class. After returning from exile in Palestine, she used her art for the newly founded GDR. There she had a career as a professor and as president of the Association [...]
