Glance at Culture - Marie-Christin Gebhardt on the Museum "Art of the Lost Generation"

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SHOW NOTES:

2:10 Dr. Böhme's collection

2:50 2nd Generation of Modern Artists 

3:00  Corinth,  Beckmann,  Klee,  Kokashka 

4:00 Museum’s goal to find/research Lost Generation artists 

4:50 Salzburg

5:00 Using Brush and Paint Against the Time 

5:20 Exhibition poster image – 1955 self-portrait by Heinrich Emil Adametz studied at Hamburg School of Arts and Crafts

5:50 1933 Heinrich Emil Adametz was banned

6:00 1945 Heinrich Emil Adametz returned to Berlin

7:00 exhibition on destinies of female artists  

7:15 Until end of WWI, women were denied access to universities and art colleges

1933 –  Jacobis refused to close school; fled to NY/re-opened school

9:30 1889 Felka Platek born in Warsaw

9:40 1923 - Platek moved to Berlin

9:50 Nussbaum

11:45 Felka and Felix 

12:00 Frankfurt artist Hanna Becker Van Rath

12:40 Van Rath’s Blue House in Germany 

13:00 We Haven’t Seen Each Other In So Long  

14:00 Provenance research 

14:50 Digitization aids in research 

15:20 Provenance research defines them as a museum 

17:00 sponsoring program

17:30 Frankfurt Artist Ruth Camp’s portrait of woman

18:00 Canvases by Heinrich Esser found in attic 

18:20 Three People by Esser

19:40 Posthumous political Portrait of Dr. Friedrich Maase (1878-1959) by Gert Heinrich Wollheim 

21:00 Female Destinies 

21:45 Future of museum - coming to terms with past by focusing on artists/their fates

22:30 combines art history with contemporary history 

23:00 Museum to be part of the movement to create justice for these artists 

23:40 visitor comments and press feedback 

25:05 library 

26:00 Meet Me in Paris Exhibition 

27:45 female artists seeking education in Paris

29:00 Paris co-ed classes

29:50 nude works by Martha Bernstein and Rudolf Levy

30:20 Montparnasse cafe scene

31:15 1933 Paris as a safe haven from National Socialists – life in exile

32:00 Occupied Paris

33:20 Russian artist Samuel Granovsky - worked with pastels/spatula

35:50 Granovsky nicknamed Cowboy of Montparnasse

36:45 Matisse student Martha Bernstein; 1911 Female Nude in Atelier

38:20 Bernstein became part of Berlin Secession 

38:50 Malweiber (painting women) mocking term for female artists 

40:30 Adolf Da Haer’s 1940 On the Beach; shifted from expressionism to conservative natural approach

43:45 Mack Koch – ex of inner immigration 

46:45 Koch’s 1930 Woman With Pipe

48:45 Häfner family 

49:55 Herbert Häfner’s 1935 Portrait of Miss Lilo Jüngst

52:35 Ilse Häfner-Mode’s Portrait of a Woman in front of a Wooden Door

54:20 Thomas Häfner’s Fantasy Landscape with Mask

56:00 Ilsa Häfner’s ink drawings while interned 

56:30 feedback

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