A Fountain Story

The Dancer’s Fountain, which stands in the garden of the museum today, tells the story of the historical entanglements of the 20th century through Georg Kolbe’s artistic work and with a problematic object history. It is inseparably linked to the fate of the family of Jewish art collector Heinrich Stahl, who commissioned Georg Kolbe in 1922 to create a fountain. During the National Socialist regime, the Stahl family was persecuted and had to sell their house, in front of which the fountain stood, at a loss. Heinrich Stahl did not survive the Theresienstadt concentration camp, to which he and his wife Jenny were deported in 1942. The fountain was considered lost for a long time until it was rebuilt in its original form in 1979. The event will explore this history in a conversation with Lichtenberg Professor for Provenance Studies Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg), curator Dr. Elisa Tamaschke and director Dr. Kathleen Reinhardt.

The event will be in English.