Online Lecture "Jews and Modern Art: The Story of People Who Lived in the 'Country in the Soul'"

Asahi Culture Center (Shinjuku) Online Course

[Contents]

 Since idol worship is forbidden in Judaism, Jews could not choose to be painters as a profession. Only after the Enlightenment did Jewish painters, sculptors, art critics, art historians, and art dealers appear, when Jews began to obtain a certain degree of citizenship in Western countries.

This course explains the quiet struggle of how Jews who did not have a homeland chose professions related to art in the countries where they lived and survived.

[Curriculum]

Jul: Why "Jews and Modern Art"? The Second Commandment of Moses (prohibition of idolatry) and the beginning of Jewish painters

Aug: Enlightenment, the ideal of culture (Bildung), and the emergence of Jewish painters: The Mendelssohn family

Sep: Maurycy Gottlieb: A genius painter born in Galicia (now Ukraine) who died young

[Lecturer]

Tsukasa Koudera (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)

[Course Information]

■Jews and Modern Art: The story of people who lived in "the country in the soul"

☆Held online  ☆Rerun available

■Lecturer: Tsukasa Kofuji/Professor Emeritus, Osaka University

■Dates: 2024/7/25, 8/22, 9/26 Thursday 13:00-14:30

■Fee: 9,900 yen for members, 11,550 yen for adults

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Asahi Culture Center (Shinjuku)

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*Lecturer Kofudera Tsukasa, Professor Emeritus, Osaka University

*A Book “Jews and Modern Art” by Kobunsha (Kobunsha Shinsho)

*Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer”, 1907, Neue Galerie, New York