Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - A Life Dedicated to Art

For 70 of her 86 years, the Berlin artist Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) worked with her hands and created unique sketches, paintings and sculptures. With the beginning of the Nazi era in 1933, many of their buyers had to leave Germany. Jeanne Mammen emigrated from within and created her works in secret for the next 12 years. Her artwork shows her critical view to the circumstances in which she has to live. Her studio, which she moved into in 1920, still exists today Ku'damm 29 almost unchanged and allows us to come very close to this artist and her work.

Lecture by Dr. Martina Weinland, Commissioner for Cultural  Heritage at the Museum of the City of Berlin in Berlin (Germany). She is a Berlin art historian, who is responsible for nine dependent artist foundations at the museum, including Fritz Ascher and Jeanne Mammen. She has been a research assistant at the Stadtmuseum Berlin since 1992. So far she has published numerous books on the urban history of Berlin, including a monograph on the Märkisches Museum and the water bridges in Berlin. She also curated several exhibitions, including the 2016 exhibition Berlin – City of Women.

The event is part of the monthly series Flight or Fight: Stories of Artists under Repression.

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This Zoom lecture series, hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, investigates artists whose life and art were impacted by the German Nazi terror regime 1933-1945.