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SUMMARY:"Fritz Ascher: Themes and Variations"A Digital Exhibition Experience
DESCRIPTION:This digital exhibition includes important examples from the oeuvre of the German Jewish Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970). Ascher’s career extended from prior to the First World War until the late 1960s. However\, Ascher’s artistic trajectory was interrupted due to persecution under National Socialism\, and he spent much of the Second World War in hiding\, concealed in a family friend’s basement. Ascher’s work consequently encompasses both the vibrant artistic scene in early-20th-century Germany\, as well as the trauma and aesthetic shifts consequent of Ascher’s persecution and deprivations during the twelve years of the Nazi regime. \nThese selected works are representative not only of critical moments in Ascher’s personal and artistic development\, but also of key themes that occupied Ascher’s attention throughout his career. Variations in certain ideas\, motifs\, and subjects in Ascher’s work betray the traumatic impact of Nazi oppression as much as they equally speak to Ascher’s personal and artistic growth over time. Similarly\, Ascher’s persistent affection for particular subjects provides insight into Ascher’s fortitude as a human being: an individual who\, even in the most dire of circumstances\, continued to use music\, poetry\, and theatrical paradigms as lenses through which to engage with the world. \nPlease explore the multi-faceted content with videos and interviews\, photos and artworks\, short introductions and scholarly texts that can be discovered through the links in every image description!
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/fritz-ascher-themes-and-variations/
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SUMMARY:Early Drawings and Cartoons by Jewish Immigrant Artists\, ca. 1900-1920Presentation by Matthew Baigell\, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Rutgers University professor emeritus Matthew Baigell discusses early Jewish immigrant artists and cartoonists. As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s\, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society. Around 1900 they established a Jewish art stream separate from mainstream American art that continues to the present day. To a greater or lesser degree over the decades\, artists have continually emphasized community values\, politics\, and religious heritage. \n\nImage above: Shelter Us Under the Shadow of Thy Wings\, Hebrew Publishing 1909 \n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\nFrederick Opper & Joseph Keppler (O&K)\, The Modern Moses\, Puck Magazine\, Vol. 10\, No. 247\, New York: November 30th 1881. \n\n\n\n\n\nSamuel Zagat\, Pogrom\, Poland\, 1920. \n\n\n\n\nSamuel Zagat\, Inflation Squeezing Every Penny out of the Worker\, May 1919. \n\n\n\n\nMatthew Baigell is professor emeritus in art history at Rutgers University. He has written\, co-authored\, and co-edited twenty-four books on mainstream American and Jewish American art. His most recent book is “Heritage: Jewish Artists in America Since 1900” (2025)\, the first book in which a continuous\, separate art stream has been identified. \nThis event is part of the online series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression. \n\n\n\n\nThe book Heritage: Jewish Artists in America Since 1900 (Judaic Traditions in Literature\, Music\, and Art)\, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2025. \n\n\nYOU CAN PURCHASE THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
URL:https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/jewish-artists/
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SUMMARY:THE RESTLESS HUNGARIAN Film Screening and Conversation with Director Tom Weidlinger
DESCRIPTION:The Restless Hungarian (2021) is a personal narrative set against the backdrop of the Hungarian Jewish diaspora\, the rise of Modernism\, and the Cold War. The film centers on Paul Weidlinger\, one of the most important structural engineers of the twentieth century who created the strength behind iconic skyscrapers\, churches\, museums\, embassies\, and monumental sculptures by Picasso\, Noguchi\, and Dubuffet. Early in his career\, he broke from mainstream modernism with his concept of the “Joy of Space”. \n\n\nBehind his professional success\, however\, was a deeply troubled private life marked by loss\, denial\, and family tragedy. As the filmmaker—his son—begins to explore Paul’s past\, the story shifts into a deeply personal journey across continents\, uncovering hidden Jewish roots and the family’s suffering during the Holocaust. Through this process\, he confronts painful memories\, including mental illness and suicide within his family\, and ultimately arrives at a more compassionate understanding of his father. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween June 17 and 25 you can view The Restless Hungarian on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register. \n\nREGISTER HERE\nYOU CAN WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: \n\n\nOn April 24\, join film director Tom Weidlinger in conversation with Rachel Stern about The Restless Hungarian\, a documentary film about his father Paul Weidlinger\, one of the most important structural engineers of the twentieth century.\n\n\n\nTom Weidlinger is a writer and filmmaker with over 35 years of experience directing and producing documentaries—from the emotional development of boys to humanitarian aid in Congo—often centered on social justice. He produced six full-length documentaries for public television with support from the Lillian Lincoln Foundation\, including Jim Thorpe\, The World’s Greatest Athlete\, which aired more than 4\,000 times and explores Thorpe’s assertion of his American Indian identity in the face of cultural erasure. \n\n\nIn the 1990s\, Weidlinger received a major grant from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) to create Making Peace\, a four-hour series on grassroots efforts to address the roots of violence\, along with a pioneering online activism campaign. Earlier\, inspired by Václav Havel\, he documented post-communist Czechoslovakia in After the Velvet Revolution\, filmed over four years in Prague. After founding Moira Productions in 1987\, he transitioned to independent filmmaking and produced archival documentaries for PBS’s The American Experience\, including The Great San Francisco Earthquake\, which premiered in the series’ first season. \n\nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\nThe documentary film is based on the book The Restless Hungarian:Modernism\, Madness and the American Dream\, which was published in April 2019 by Spark Press. The book won a Gold Medal for Biography from the Independent Book Publishers Association. \n\nYOU CAN ORDER THE BOOK HERE\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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