Art Researcher Nathan Diament On the Legacy of Artist J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954)

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Show Notes

04:30 Kirszenbaum’s work in Belgium after World War II

07:00 Israeli Museum Curator’s belief Kirszenbaum’s legacy should not die

07:40 Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels’ encouragement of Diament’s research

08:30 Art Loss Register and Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou 

09:15 600 of Kirszenbaum’s works burned during World War II

10:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

11:20 Tel Aviv Museum’s works by Kirszenbaum

12:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s

12:20 Frans Hals Museum in Holland

13:50 Approximately 200 of Kirszenbaum’s works located

14:20 Israeli Exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work in 2013

16:30 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

19:20 Book J.D. Kirszenbaum (1900-1954) The Lost Generation

21:00 Croatian exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work

22:00 Dutch Artist Paul Lindgreen, a student of Kirszenbaum’s

23:30 German exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work

24:00 French exhibition of Kirszenbaum’s work upcoming

25:00 Kirszenbaum’s works about the Messiah and the Prophets

26:00 Tel Aviv Museum; Kirszenbaum’s Self Portrait with Cubism

26:55 Kirszenbaum’s caricatures in Germany during the world wars

28:00 Kandinsky Library at the Pompidou Center 

30:00 Baroness Alix de Rothschild’s assistance

34:45 Influences of Kandisky and Klee

35:55 Horseman of the Apocalypse

36:20 Kirszenbaum’s emancipation 

37:00 Chagall’s life and sources similar to Kirszenbaum’s 

42:40 Felix Nussbaum and Royal Museum of Belgium’s letter about Nussbaum

44:40 S.S. St. Louis

46:40 Baroness Alix de Rothschild commission of Prophets Triptych (Elias, Jeremiah, Moses)

50:00 Diament’s membership with Yad Vashem’s Commission of the Just

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