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Cover Art from the Afterlives Exhibition by Kurt Schwitters, Opened by Customs, 1937 or 1938, Paper, printed paper, oil, and graphite collaged on paper Tate, London, purchased 1958
For more information about the Afterlives exhibition, please visit the Jewish Museum's website.
Show Notes:
00:02:00 inspiration for Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
00:06:30 design of Afterlives
00:10:15 windows metaphor of seeing through to the history of works and events
00:11:20 August Sander’s portrait photos of persecuted Jews
00:13:00 Jeu de Paume’s “Room of the Martyrs”
00:13:40 1942 photograph of Room of the Martyrs includes images of work by Matisse, Picasso, Léger, and Derain who were defamed as degenerate
00:14:15 exhibition reunites large nude by Cezanne, small surrealist Picasso and post-cubist painting Composition by Fédor Löwenstein
00:14:52 Cezanne and Picasso looted from Alphonse Kann
00:15:00 Composition seizure
00:16:20 restution of Composition in process
00:17:45 works celebrate history of their creation and document their looting
00:18:00 artwork as documentation
00:19:30 Rose Valland
00:20:20 Dachau records in ‘Creativity Under Duress’ gallery
00:20:50 work by artists in exile
00:21:05 work by artists in camps and/or in hiding
00:22:00 Nuremberg trial excerpt
00:25:30 Judaica Room includes pieces from Jewish Museum’s collection affiliated with Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) and community of Danzig and installation by Maria Eichhorn
00:28:15 Jewish Museum as temporary storage depot for the JCR 1949-1952
00:32:00 JCR aluminum tags on objects
00:32:20 Hannah Arendt’s work at the core of Eichhorn’s commission
00:34:40 Eichhorn’s commission
00:37:50 Arendt’s documents
00:39:30 commissions by Lisa Oppenheim, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez and Eichhorn
00:41:30 international perspective from these artists
00:42:15 Oppenheim’s piece deals with work by Jean-Baptiste
00:46:00 historical justice
00:49:00 international culture of memory
00:50:00 symposium
00:52:00 Pechstein's 1912 Paysage and Löwenstein’s 1939 Composition
00:54:45 We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz; and upcoming exhibition related to Ephrussi family story
00:57:45 1940 charcoal portrait by Jacob Barosin while in French forced labor camp of fellow prisoner
01:00:15 Picasso’s 1929 Group of Characters
01:02:50 Pissarro’s 1872 Portrait of Minette
01:06:00 Portrait of Minette, Group of Characters and Cézanne’s Bather and Rocks
01:06:50 Kurt Schwitters’ Opened by Customs from 1937/38
01:09:35 Afterlives catalog
01:10:30 reactions of visitors
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
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Cover Art from the Afterlives Exhibition by Kurt Schwitters, Opened by Customs, 1937 or 1938, Paper, printed paper, oil, and graphite collaged on paper Tate, London, purchased 1958
For more information about the Afterlives exhibition, please visit the Jewish Museum's website.
Show Notes:
00:02:00 inspiration for Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
00:06:30 design of Afterlives
00:10:15 windows metaphor of seeing through to the history of works and events
00:11:20 August Sander’s portrait photos of persecuted Jews
00:13:00 Jeu de Paume’s “Room of the Martyrs”
00:13:40 1942 photograph of Room of the Martyrs includes images of work by Matisse, Picasso, Léger, and Derain who were defamed as degenerate
00:14:15 exhibition reunites large nude by Cezanne, small surrealist Picasso and post-cubist painting Composition by Fédor Löwenstein
00:14:52 Cezanne and Picasso looted from Alphonse Kann
00:15:00 Composition seizure
00:16:20 restution of Composition in process
00:17:45 works celebrate history of their creation and document their looting
00:18:00 artwork as documentation
00:19:30 Rose Valland
00:20:20 Dachau records in ‘Creativity Under Duress’ gallery
00:20:50 work by artists in exile
00:21:05 work by artists in camps and/or in hiding
00:22:00 Nuremberg trial excerpt
00:25:30 Judaica Room includes pieces from Jewish Museum’s collection affiliated with Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) and community of Danzig and installation by Maria Eichhorn
00:28:15 Jewish Museum as temporary storage depot for the JCR 1949-1952
00:32:00 JCR aluminum tags on objects
00:32:20 Hannah Arendt’s work at the core of Eichhorn’s commission
00:34:40 Eichhorn’s commission
00:37:50 Arendt’s documents
00:39:30 commissions by Lisa Oppenheim, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez and Eichhorn
00:41:30 international perspective from these artists
00:42:15 Oppenheim’s piece deals with work by Jean-Baptiste
00:46:00 historical justice
00:49:00 international culture of memory
00:50:00 symposium
00:52:00 Pechstein's 1912 Paysage and Löwenstein’s 1939 Composition
00:54:45 We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz; and upcoming exhibition related to Ephrussi family story
00:57:45 1940 charcoal portrait by Jacob Barosin while in French forced labor camp of fellow prisoner
01:00:15 Picasso’s 1929 Group of Characters
01:02:50 Pissarro’s 1872 Portrait of Minette
01:06:00 Portrait of Minette, Group of Characters and Cézanne’s Bather and Rocks
01:06:50 Kurt Schwitters’ Opened by Customs from 1937/38
01:09:35 Afterlives catalog
01:10:30 reactions of visitors
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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