{"id":5761,"date":"2023-02-22T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:01:21","slug":"kathe-kollwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/kathe-kollwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Los Angeles 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"book-title\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5738 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-179x300.jpeg\" alt=\"K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Los Angeles 1937 Eine Ausstellung zwischen antiquarischen B\u00fcchern und der Hollywood Anti-Nazi League\" width=\"210\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-179x300.jpeg 179w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image.jpeg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Los Angeles 1937: Eine Ausstellung zwischen antiquarischen B\u00fcchern und der Hollywood Anti-Nazi League<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bokus.com\/bok\/9781845456627\/max-liebermann-and-international-modernism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"book-publisher\">2022, DEUTSCH FORUM F\u00dcR KUNSTGESCHICHTE, DFK PARIS<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"book-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/faculty\/francoise-forster-hahn\/\">Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, author<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In June 1937, Jacob Zeitlin opened an exhibition of graphics by K\u00e4the Kollwitz in his bookstore gallery in Los Angeles. It was the first exhibition of Kollwitz\u2019s work in Southern California. The exhibition and the glamorous vernissage were co-sponsored by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy. The evening\u2019s speakers were German writer and activist Ernst Toller and American composer George Antheil. Among the illustrious guests were Fritz Lang, Richard Neutra, Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and other celebrities from the film industry and the German-Austrian exile community. The Kollwitz exhibition became the focal point of the city\u2019s central areas of conflict: it was not just a cultural event in Zeitlin\u2019s bookstore gallery, but above all a targeted political action by the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. Kollwitz\u2019s work was thus caught in the crossfire of the conflict between the anti-fascist struggle of the Anti-Nazi League and the violent actions of National Socialist groups in Los Angeles. In this political tension, K\u00e4the Kollwitz was perceived as an \u201canti-Nazi artist\u201d and her exhibition was ascribed an active role in the fight against Hitler. The chapters of the book trace how the exhibition became the crossroads of four biographies: K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Jacob Zeitlin, Ernst Toller and George Antheil.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Los Angeles 1937: Eine Ausstellung zwischen antiquarischen B\u00fcchern und der Hollywood Anti-Nazi League 2022, DEUTSCH FORUM F\u00dcR <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/kathe-kollwitz\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,119],"tags":[122,123],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-books","category-francoise-forster-hahn","tag-max-liebermann","tag-modernism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}