Glance at Culture - Rachel Stern on the Fritz Ascher Society, Inner Emigration & Art's Power to Create a Better World

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Show Notes:
2:00 mission of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art

3:45 Fritz Ascher’s life and work

8:30 open composition of Ascher’s 1968 Trees in Hilly Landscape compared with blocked tree compositions circa 1940 

11:15 recent discovery of portraits by Ascher

14:40 art historic term ‘inner emigration’

15:45 Ascher’s poetry as ‘unpainted paintings’

17:50 Artist Jeanne Mammen

19:35 Artists Lea and Hans Grundig

23:00 Art For No One exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany

26:40 creation of Fritz Ascher Society to highlight unknown artists 

29:30 Identity, Art and Migration online exhibition 

34:15 Felix Nussbaum’s work and Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany

35:15 founding director of Felix Nussbaum Haus Inge Jaehner

35:40 curator of Felix Nussbaum Haus Anne Schwetter 

36:30 Nussbaum’s wife, Felka Platek

38:00 post-war focus communist control and Cold War

38:40 her work to create historical justice for these artists and educating about these artists in order to put them into their context

39:40 justice through telling stories of minorities 

40:40 legacy 

41:20 power of art to initiate discussion and to help create a better world 

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