From 23 March until 24 June 2012 the JHM presents the first exhibition surveying the work of Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. These husband-and-wife artists lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1910 to 1942 and were strongly influenced by a variety of national and international avant-garde art movements.

This tour includes an introduction to the exhibition in the New Synagogue. A museum guide discusses the life and work of these artists, who were part of the Bergen School from 1914.

Please keep in mind this gallery talk is Dutch spoken.

Location: JHM Auditorium.
Admission: free entrance with your ticket for the Jewish Historical Quarter.
More information: E events.

From 23 March until 24 June 2012 the JHM presents the first exhibition surveying the work of Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. These husband-and-wife artists lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1910 to 1942 and were strongly influenced by a variety of national and international avant-garde art movements. On Sunday 13 May the JHM organises a gallery talk on the exhibition.

Please keep in mind this gallery talk is Dutch spoken.

Location: JHM Auditorium.
Admission: free entrance with your ticket for the Jewish Historical Quarter.
More information: E events.

From 23 March until 24 June 2012 the JHM presents the first exhibition surveying the work of Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. These husband-and-wife artists lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1910 to 1942 and were strongly influenced by a variety of national and international avant-garde art movements.

This tour includes an introduction to the exhibition in the New Synagogue. A museum guide discusses the life and work of these artists, who were part of the Bergen School from 1914.

Please keep in mind this gallery talk is Dutch spoken.

Location: JHM Auditorium.
Admission: free entrance with your ticket for the Jewish Historical Quarter.
More information: E events.

From 23 March until 24 June 2012 the JHM presents the first exhibition surveying the work of Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. These husband-and-wife artists lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1910 to 1942 and were strongly influenced by a variety of national and international avant-garde art movements. On Sunday 13 May the JHM organises a gallery talk on the exhibition.

Please keep in mind this gallery talk is Dutch spoken.

Location: JHM Auditorium.
Admission: free entrance with your ticket for the Jewish Historical Quarter.
More information: E events.

In this workshop we are going to look at the paintings by Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. After the tour you can make your own painting in the studio!

Age: 6 - 12 years
Location: Studio JHM Children's Museum
Admission: € 2,- (excl. entrance fee Jewish Cultural Quarter)
More information: E Children's events. During the weekend of the event: T (020) 5 310 330

In this workshop we are going to look at the paintings by Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. After the tour you can make your own painting in the studio!

Age: 6 - 12 years
Location: Studio JHM Children's Museum
Admission: € 2,- (excl. entrance fee Jewish Cultural Quarter)
More information: E Children's events. During the weekend of the event: T (020) 5 310 330.

Sophia's Drawings is based on a series of drawings made by Sofia, a 16 year old girl; Sofia made these drawings in Holland while she was hiding from the Nazis during the war. By making use of the drawings through various visual techniques, the play tells Sofia's life story during that period.

Sofia was the daughter of Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, a known children's author. Before Clara was sent to concentration camps and Sofia went into hiding, they published a series of children's stories - written by Clara and illustrated by Sofia - together. These stories were published in the weekly Jewish newspaper in Amsterdam. Sofia, in time, became a painter.

Efrat Hadani, an actress, puppeteer and sculptress, and Sofia's daughter, acts in the play and relates her mother's story. The play, a result of meetings between Efrat Hadani and Pablo Ariel, the director and an actor in the play, uses a special language and allows a meeting of three generations of creative women.
 


Tickets: € 15,50, students € 12,50. Reservations: E events.
Location: Hollandsche Schouwburg.
Language: Hebrew spoken, English subtitles.

Sophia's Drawings is based on a series of drawings made by Sofia, a 16 year old girl; Sofia made these drawings in Holland while she was hiding from the Nazis during the war. By making use of the drawings through various visual techniques, the play tells Sofia's life story during that period.

Sofia was the daughter of Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, a known children's author. Before Clara was sent to concentration camps and Sofia went into hiding, they published a series of children's stories - written by Clara and illustrated by Sofia - together. These stories were published in the weekly Jewish newspaper in Amsterdam. Sofia, in time, became a painter.

Efrat Hadani, an actress, puppeteer and sculptress, and Sofia's daughter, acts in the play and relates her mother's story. The play, a result of meetings between Efrat Hadani and Pablo Ariel, the director and an actor in the play, uses a special language and allows a meeting of three generations of creative women.
 


Tickets: € 15,50, students € 12,50. Reservations: E events.
Location: Hollandsche Schouwburg.
Language: Hebrew spoken, English subtitles.

From 27 April through 30 September, the Jewish Historical Museum is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Emmy Andriesse, one of the twentieth century's leading Dutch photographers. Visitors have a chance to see photos of Jewish life, war and liberation - all taken in Amsterdam, the city where the photographer spent most of her working life. The photographs in this exhibition are recent prints that were bought by the JHM in 2008 from the Special Collections Department of the Leiden University Library, the custodian of Emmy Andriesse's archive. This unique acquisition is being exhibited to the public for the first time.

Emmy Andriesse (1914-1953), after completing her training to become a photographer in 1937, specialised in the new genre of social documentary photography. She later shot cityscapes, landscapes and fashion spreads; taking portrait photos increasingly became an important part of her work. Together with her fellow photographers and friends Cas Oorthuys, Eva Besnyö and Carel Blazer, she defined the face of Dutch photography in the 1940s and 1950s, a period when faith in progress and reconstruction was central to the mindset of the era.

Emmy Andriesse is best known for her photos of Amsterdam during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945. She captured this period in penetrating images. Many of these photos are considered icons of the collective memory of the German occupation.

As an emancipated Jewish woman, Emmy Andriesse was far removed from traditional Jewish life. Specifically Jewish themes are rarely seen in her photos. Still, her background had an unmistakable influence on her life and work. She was attracted to the market at Waterlooplein, with its lively atmosphere of Jewish merchants and street vendors. The photo series she made there has never been published and can be seen for the first time in this exhibition. From that period there is also a small series of photos of the Portuguese Synagogue, in which she successfully captures the building's characteristic, seventeenth-century ambience.

In 1941, Andriesse was forced to give up working due to the German Berufsverbot (Professional Ban) directed at Jews. She went into hiding in 1943, but thanks to expertly forged documents surfaced again in late 1944. During the last six months of the Occupation, together with Cas Oorthuys, she was one of the most active illegal photographers of De Ondergedoken Camera (The Underground Camera). Human suffering was the focus of her work - on the street but also in people's homes. Following the Liberation, Emmy Andriesse photographed people celebrating. At the same time, she made poignant pictures of the plundered homes and desolate ruins in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter.

Emmy Andriesse: Photos of Jewish Amsterdam, War and Liberation can be seen in the Print Room, where a documentary about Emmy Andriesse is also being screened. The film was made in 1991 by Carrie de Swaan, the daughter of Andriesse's friend Meik de Swaan.

Attend and share!

Join a gallery talk about the exhibition Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz. Linda Horn is the author of the book Else Berg and Mommie Schwarz, Artist couple in Amsterdam 1910-1942.

Please keep in mind this gallery talk is Dutch spoken.

Location: JHM Auditorium.
Admission: free entrance with your ticket for the Jewish Historical Quarter.
More information: E events.