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Im Juni 1937 eröffnete Jacob Zeitlin in seiner Buchhandlung-Galerie in Los Angeles eine Ausstellung mit Grafik von Käthe Kollwitz. Es war die erste Ausstellung von Kollwitz' Werken in Südkalifornien. Co-Sponsor der Ausstellung und der glamourösen Vernissage war die »Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy«. Die Redner des Abends waren der deutsche Schriftsteller und Aktivist Ernst Toller und der amerikanische Komponist George Antheil. Zu den illustren Gästen gehörten Fritz Lang, Richard Neutra, Arnold Schönberg, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill und andere...

Max Liebermann (1847-1935), the leading artist in Germany from the early 1890s until the Nazi takeover in 1933, was known later in his career for his singular approach to Impressionism. Initially a realist painter, his work at times moved into the more abstract realm of "pure painting," which earned him the moniker, "Manet of the Germans."

Liebermann, a self-assured cultural leader and the descendent of a successful German-Jewish family, was a celebrity in his own day. He was president of the Berlin Secession from 1898 until 1910 and, during the Weimar Republic served as...