by ellen | Aug 31, 2025 | artist-timeline
1898 -1967 “I developed a sense of self-preservation as an old tree grows a new branch.” -Samson Schames, Autobiography, 1960s Fritz Siegfried Samson Schames created a body of work that blends modernist aesthetics with spiritual and historical depth. Today, his art is...
by ellen | Dec 10, 2021 | artist-timeline
1902-1988 “He was a real human being (a Mensch)” who “stands uniquely apart—a loner—yet extremely sociable.” -Klaus Märtens, Rudi Lesser 1902–1988. Graphik aus sieben Jahrzehnten (Exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Galerie Taube, 2012 German Jewish refugee Rudi Lesser was...
by ellen | Dec 10, 2021 | artist-timeline
1894-1951 “The origin of all art is what we call propaganda. … I do not say that art is my aim; art is my means.” -Arthur Szyk, cited in Mary Bragiotti, “Szyk Makes the Axis Writhe,” New York Post Weekly Picture Magazine, June 3, 1944 Prior to World War II,...
by ellen | Dec 10, 2021 | artist-timeline
1893-1970 “All my striving sought the light.” -[All mein Bestreben wollte das Licht] Fritz Ascher, Poems vol. 4, 167. Fritz Ascher (Berlin, 1893 –1970) was a German-Jewish artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings,...
by ellen | Dec 10, 2021 | artist-timeline
1899-1994 “In my case it was threads that caught me, really against my will. To work with threads seemed sissy to me. I wanted something to be conquered… but they won me over.” -Anni Albers, “Material as Metaphor,” in Anni Albers & Brenda Danilowitz, Anni Albers:...
by ellen | Dec 10, 2021 | artist-timeline
1921-2022 “I loved fighting the Germans even if it was just on paper.” -Lily Renee quoted in Lily, a documentary film by Adrienne Gruben, 2019 Lily Renée arrived during the Holocaust in New York City as a teenager, and somehow found work in the male-dominated comic...
