From Monet to Picasso. Jewish Art Collectors in Germany

With the exhibition “From Monet to Picasso. Jewish Art Collectors in Germany“, the Bucerius Kunst Forum reconstructs fifteen important art collections assembled by German Jews before 1945. The show honours and commemorates the decisive role of Jewish art collectors in the establishment, promotion and defence of modern art since the turn of the twentieth century. Fifteen families, couples and individuals are highlighted as representative examples of this collecting activity, including the Hirschland family, Clothilde and Paul Schüler, Max Meirowsky, Rosa Schapire and Margarete Mauthner. Their substantial contribution to today’s art canon was, in the wake of the Shoah and the atrocities of National Socialism, largely forgotten.

The show brings together many of their masterpieces, now scattered around the world. Around 100 works are presented, spanning from Realism and Impressionism through to Expressionism and New Objectivity, by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Lovis Corinth, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Milly Steeger and many others, presented alongside the moving stories of their former owners.

The exhibition “From Monet to Picasso. Jewish Art Collectors in Germany“ is held under the patronage of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. 

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

Sponsored by Alfred Landecker Foundation, Hapag-Lloyd Stiftung, Bucerius Kunst Club, Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, Bethmann HAL, M.M. Warburg & Co Bank and Ursula Garbe Stiftungsfonds für Kunst und Kultur in Hamburg.
The educational programme for the exhibition is funded by gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung.

Media partner is art – DAS KUNSTMAGAZIN.