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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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18

MONDAY

54 years

Printmaker Michel Fingesten celebrates his birthday in exile

Trieste

After studies at the Academy of Art in Vienna, the printmaker Michel Fingesten had traveled extensively and ultimately settled in Germany. Neither the Austrian national’s Jewish descent nor his penchant for the erotic endeared him to the Nazis. The increasingly unbearable racial politics of the regime made him decide to stay in Italy after a family visit to Trieste in 1935. Fingesten is known mainly as an illustrator and as a prolific, imaginative designer of book plates. April 18, 1938 was his 54th birthday.


TAGS: ANTISEMITISM, APRIL 18, ART, ARTISTS, EMIGRATION, PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PROFESSIONALS, POLITICS, PROMINENT PEOPLE, TRIESTE, VIENNA

SOURCE

Institution:

Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Collection:

Michel Fingesten, "Ex Libris for AH," undated. Margarete Wilbum Collection, AR 11342

Original:

2002.33

 

on the days before

April 17
Watch what you say
April 16
At-risk youth
April 15
50,000 matzot

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