NSA Events
Wed, Jan 22
|Chrysler Museum of Art
*** CANCELED ***
Sarah Eckhardt, PhD- Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents: Reconstructing the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection of German Expressionism at VMFA
Time & Location
Jan 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Chrysler Museum of Art, 1 Memorial Pl, Norfolk, VA 23510, USA
About the event
*** CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER ***
Sarah Eckhardt, PhD- Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents:
Reconstructing the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection of German Expressionism at VMFA
*This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is supported, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund
Ludwig and Rosy Fischer were forward-thinking collectors from Frankfurt, Germany, who embraced the challenging art of their time. Between 1915 and 1925, they built one of the most important collections of German Expressionist art in Germany, with a strong emphasis on Die Brucke- "the Bridge"- a pivotal group within the movement. After their deaths, their collection was divided between their two sons, Max and Ernst Fischer. Of Jewish descent, both brothers needed to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power. Ernst and his young family…