Left: Ellen Auerbach, Untitled [Portrait of a young Arab woman], 1933–1936, gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 30 × 20 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Auerbach 505 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection / Right: Lea Grundig, Milker (Ruth), 1946, brush, ink, 26 x 25.2 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Lea Grundig 2762 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection
Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig in Palestine 1933–1948
Exhibition
Artists Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig were forced to leave Germany in 1933 and seek refuge in Palestine because of their Jewish origins and political convictions. Their time in exile there is the subject of the exhibition at Museum Eberswalde in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, which holds Auerbach’s and Grundig’s estates. A catalogue edited by Eckhart Gillen will accompany the exhibition.
Publication
Ellen Auerbach und Lea Grundig in Palästina 1933–1948
Edited by Eckhart J. Gillen on behalf of the city of Eberswalde in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, City of Eberswalde / Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2025
208 pages, numerous illustrations
ISBN 978-3-88331-262-0
€ 10