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This lesson examines the life and art of Max Stern, touching upon the themes of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the resettlement of Jewish immigrants in Canada following the Second World War.
Follow Jan. 17, 2021 On January 17, 1945, probably the most inspiring rescuer of Jews targeted for extermination in the Holocaust, disappeared from the face of the earth. Millions of words have been written about the feats of Raoul Wallenberg. Devoid of any diplomatic experience, he arrived in Budapest on July 9, 1944 and within six months he managed to save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis and their local henchmen. In January 1945, sensing the war in Hungary was nearing its end, he set up a meeting with Marshal Rodyon Malinovsky, Supreme Commander of the Ukr...
In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side,...
In the World But Don't Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don't Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseu...
In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side,...