DEG Jahrbuch 2004: Jewish Culture and Exlibris Art.
(content of the DEG Jahrbuch 2004)
Heinz Decker - 'Preface'
I. The fate of Jewish artists and collectors
Dr. Henry Tauber - 'Jewish members of the Deutscher Exlibris Verein and the Deutsche Exlibris Gesellschaft'
Jewish personalities who were members are presented in short biographies, outlining their merits and
- as far as possible - their fate during the Hitler era
Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen - 'Two Leipzig Exlibris'
The author, a descendant of the eminent Leipzig music publisher Henri Hinrichsen, writes about the history
of the two Hinrichsen exlibris and the terrible fate of the Hinrichsen family during the Third Reich
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II. Jewish artists
Dr. Gernot Blum - 'Ephraim Mose Lilien, a Jewish art nouveau artist and his exlibris'
The author outlines life and work of the famous art nouveau artist, one of the few Jewish graphic artists of his time who uses Jewish symbolism in his work and particularly his exlibris
Dr Arno Parik - 'The Prague painter and graphic artist Georg Jilovsky'
The contribution describes life and work of this important Prague artist, who became an early and active member of the Exlibris Verein Berlin, was a recognized and sought after exlibris artist, suffered the tortures of several concentration camps, lost both sons there, and survived, scared by his fate
Milan Humplik - 'Work list of Jilovsky's exlibris'
PD Dr. Rosamunde Gräfin von der Schelenburg (Rosamunde Neugebauer) - 'Art in the Land of Forefathers - Lea Grundig and Jacob Steinhardt'
The essay takes up the question to what extent the stay in Palestine and the experiences of living in exile found expression in the graphic style and the motifs of the two artists
Dr. Irene Below - 'Cultural plurality and artistic self-conception - the Exlibris of Irma Stern'
An outline and appreciation of the little known exlibris art of the South African artist, who is daughter of German-Jewish emigrants and through longer stays in Germany was closely related till 1933 to the German art scene, especially German expressionism
Pauline Paucker - 'Elizabeth Friedlander'
Life and work of the calligraphic and book artist, who emigrated to England to survive the Nazi terror
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III. Jewish culture in the mirror of bookplates
Philip van Praag - 'Jewish motifs in Dutch bookplates'
Lecture delivered by the late author at F.I.S.A.E. Congress in Amsterdam about Jewish motifs in Dutch bookplates
Heinz Decker - 'Jewish motifs in European bookplates'
Philip van Praag's contribution is supplemented by further examples of 20th century European exlibris with Jewish motifs
Ulrike Ladnar - 'Jewish representatives of the Viennese and Prague Modernism and their exlibris'
This contribution presents and characterizes the exlibris of eminent assimilated Jewish members of the cultural scene in Vienna and Prague (Freud, Schnitzler, Hofmannstahl, Max Reinhardt, Hugo Salus, Oskar Wiener, Stefan Zweig)
Manfred Baumüller, Birgit Göbel-Stiegler, Lutz Grösel, Elsbeth Rhonheimer, Klaus Thoms - Members of the German Exlibris Society write about their exlibris with Jewish motifs and why they collect them
To become a member of the DEG, please write to:
Claus Wittal
Fliednerstrasse 27
D 65191 Wiesbaden
Germany
email: cw (at) exlibrisart.com
