Major Anti-Nazi art exhibition at Berlin Museum Opens August 2008
Contact: Lori Wood, Project Manager, The Arthur Szyk Society(650) 343-9588; lori@szyk.org
Major Arthur Szyk Exhibition
"Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror"
Opens in Berlin at Deutsches Historisches Museum in August 2008
First-Ever German Exhibition for WWII Polish Jewish Anti-Nazi Artist
Burlingame, CA. May 8, 2008: The Arthur Szyk Society announced today collaboration with The Deutsches Historisches [German Historical] Museum, Berlin, on a major exhibition of the artwork of Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), the Polish Jewish artist trained in Paris and Krakow, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1940 to escape Europe in the wake of the Holocaust and build American support to join the fight against Nazism and Fascism. The nearly 5,000 square foot exhibition will take place in the I. M. Pei Building with an opening press conference on Thursday, August 28, 2008, and run through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
"We are particularly pleased that Dr. Hans Ottomeyer, Director of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, proposed to The Society an exhibition that includes an overview of Szyk's art, with particular focus on his anti-Nazi work of the 1930s and 40s," said Irvin Ungar, Curator of The Arthur Szyk Society, who is serving as guest curator for the Berlin exhibition. "Our exhibition in Germany will concentrate on Szyk as a 'citizen-soldier of the free world' and his emphasis in fighting hatred, tyranny and oppression, and as an advocate for justice."
Szyk confronted the threat of National Socialism in his sketches and drawings years before the beginning of the Second World War. In 1939, Szyk found himself stranded in the wake of a stay abroad as a result of the German invasion of Poland. Unable to return to his homeland, he put pencil to paper in the battle against National Socialist Germany, first from London, and, after 1940, from the United States. He worked ceaselessly to draw the attention of the global public to the incipient mass murder of European Jews. During the Second World War, his sketches appeared in American newspapers such as PM and the New York Post, as well as in popular magazines like Collier's, Esquire and Time. The exhibition at the German Historical Museum presents Arthur Szyk's oeuvre in the form of a representative cross-section which focuses particularly on the artist's inventive, detailed political caricatures.
For more details on Arthur Szyk, please visit www.szyk.org. Visit the Deutsches Historisches Museum online at www.dhm.de.
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Major Arthur Szyk Exhibition
"Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror"
Opens in Berlin at Deutsches Historisches Museum in August 2008
First-Ever German Exhibition for WWII Polish Jewish Anti-Nazi Artist
Burlingame, CA. May 8, 2008: The Arthur Szyk Society announced today collaboration with The Deutsches Historisches [German Historical] Museum, Berlin, on a major exhibition of the artwork of Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), the Polish Jewish artist trained in Paris and Krakow, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1940 to escape Europe in the wake of the Holocaust and build American support to join the fight against Nazism and Fascism. The nearly 5,000 square foot exhibition will take place in the I. M. Pei Building with an opening press conference on Thursday, August 28, 2008, and run through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
"We are particularly pleased that Dr. Hans Ottomeyer, Director of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, proposed to The Society an exhibition that includes an overview of Szyk's art, with particular focus on his anti-Nazi work of the 1930s and 40s," said Irvin Ungar, Curator of The Arthur Szyk Society, who is serving as guest curator for the Berlin exhibition. "Our exhibition in Germany will concentrate on Szyk as a 'citizen-soldier of the free world' and his emphasis in fighting hatred, tyranny and oppression, and as an advocate for justice."
Szyk confronted the threat of National Socialism in his sketches and drawings years before the beginning of the Second World War. In 1939, Szyk found himself stranded in the wake of a stay abroad as a result of the German invasion of Poland. Unable to return to his homeland, he put pencil to paper in the battle against National Socialist Germany, first from London, and, after 1940, from the United States. He worked ceaselessly to draw the attention of the global public to the incipient mass murder of European Jews. During the Second World War, his sketches appeared in American newspapers such as PM and the New York Post, as well as in popular magazines like Collier's, Esquire and Time. The exhibition at the German Historical Museum presents Arthur Szyk's oeuvre in the form of a representative cross-section which focuses particularly on the artist's inventive, detailed political caricatures.
For more details on Arthur Szyk, please visit www.szyk.org. Visit the Deutsches Historisches Museum online at www.dhm.de.
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