The Fritz Ascher Society presents:
“Gertrud Kauders, Jewish Artist from Prague (1883-1942): Surprises, Enigmas, Opportunities.”
Wednesday, December 4 at 12:00pm Eastern Time online.
Registration link: https://fritzaschersociety.org/exhibition-event/gertrud-kauders/
In July 2018, as workmen were demolishing a house on Prague’s outskirts they were astonished to be deluged by works of art falling from a ceiling. Nobody had known that the works were hidden there. The art turned out to be that of Gertrud Kauders who had hidden the contents of her whole studio in the house of a friend before being deported first to Theresienstadt and then to Majdanek where she was murdered on arrival in May 1942.
Kauders was a serious and inventive artist, quite well known in Prague’s art world of the time. She worked in oils, pencil, crayon, watercolour and gouache. Now her work is held by museums around the world.
In this presentation, great-nephew Simon During will speak about the discovery and distribution of Gertrude Kauders’ works and think about what they mean to us today.
He is a professor of English Literature who has worked in universities around the world, including the University of Melbourne, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and the Freie Universität, Berlin.
The event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight; stories of artists under repression” of The Fritz Ascher Society in New York (@fritzaschersociety).
The CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society, Rachel Stern, is a Jewish Art Salon Board member.