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Website: https://fritzaschersociety.org
Facebook: @fritzaschersociety
Twitter: @Ascher_Society
Instagram: @fritzaschersociety
Director/Person-In-Charge: Rachel Stern
Year Established: 2014
Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)
Mission: The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc. re-discovers artists, whose careers were interrupted or destroyed by the Nazi terror regime, and who themselves were persecuted, ostracized or banned. International collaborations on exhibitions, research initiatives and publications in print and/or digital media introduce the work of these artists to an international public.
Services: Touring exhibitions, research initiatives, publications in print and/or digital media, educational programs, lectures, panel discussions and conferences (both in-person and virtual)
Publications: Exhibition catalogues; regular newsletters; educational materials: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher/selected-publications/
Exhibits: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970); Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana
Traveling Exhibits: Art and Remembrance
Exhibit Name: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970)
Website Resource/Digital Exhibition: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher-themes-and-variations/
Size: 1,800-2,200 square feet; Availability: until 2025
Rental Fee: Yes – Call for fee plus shipping and insurance; Who Bears Fee: exhibitor
Contact: Rachel Stern (917-363-0056) or use website contact form: https://fritzaschersociety.org/contact/
Description: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin 1893-1970) is the first ever comprehensive retrospective of Fritz Ascher’s art. Surviving two world wars and Nazi persecution in Berlin, Ascher developed his unique artistic voice in paintings, works on paper and poems. The exhibition shows a representative group of ca. 75 works (25 paintings and 50 works on paper) spanning Fritz Ascher’s oeuvre from first academic studies to monumental Expressionist figure compositions to mature landscapes. While hiding in 1942-45, Ascher wrote poems that are included as “unpainted pictures.”
