Language:
German
Pages:
195 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Additional Material:
The fall and fall of Mr. Button. An opera by Nir Shauloff (20, 8 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2019
Abstract:
A material and historical study of the controversial Transfer Agreement (1933-1939), which enabled the extraction of Jewish wealth from Nazi Germany to Palestine through the import of German goods. The goods included construction materials used in the international style buildings throughout the White City in the 1930s. The exhibition will focus on and grow out of the Liebling House (29 Idelson St), home of the White City Center, and where some of those construction materials were found. Artists: Ilit Azoulay, Lou Moriah, Nir Shauloff (The Liebling Project), Jonathan Touitou Scientific Advisors: Joachim Nicolas Trezib & Ines Sonder Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman (The Liebling Project) Accompanying the research: Sharon Golan-Yaron, content manager of the White City Center The exhibition is supported by the Inspire Foundation, Artis, and Bauhaus Today Fund. The Liebling Project is the Residency Program of the White City Center; artistic director: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman.
Abstract:
The houses in the “White City” in Tel Aviv (Israel), a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003, were partly erected of building materials from Germany. The Haavara Agreement, a contract between Zionists in Palestine and National Socialists in Germany, played an important role for this. The exhibition The Transfer Agreement deals with this agreement from an artistic, architectural and political perspective. It will be shown during the Triennale of Modernism at the Bauhaus Dessau. The controversial agreement between the Jewish Agency, the Zionist Association for Germany and Nazi Germany was valid from 1933 to 1938. It should be an incentive for German Jews to emigrate, by enabling them to transfer part of their property to Palestine. They paid in the property at one of the transfer banks in Germany. Local importers used this money to buy goods in Germany, e.g. building materials, and sold them in Palestine. When the emigrants arrived in Palestine, they got their money back, after the deduction of the cost. More than 50,000 German Jews emigrated under the Haavara Agreement. Estimated 150 million Reichsmarks are assumed to have been transferred. A real building boom began, based on this mass of construction material, coining the “White City” Tel Aviv – from cement to tiles. For the exhibition Transfer Conversion in the Bauhaus Building, some of the building materials from Tel Aviv return to Germany. The Transfer Agreement is a joint project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and The White City Center. The exhibition is simultaneously shown in Tel Aviv. The focus of the team around the artists Ilit Azoulay, Lou Moriah, Nir Shauloff and Jonathan Touitou, the curator Hila Cohen-Schneiderman and the monument conservationist Sharon Golan-Yaron is on the concept of the “Societies on the Move”: the move of people, materials and cultures as central element of modern architecture and its influence on urban development. The project will investigate historical and contemporary relations and raise the question for the impact of migration and mobility on individuals, cities and culture while they reshape their identities
URL:
https://www.bauhaus100.com/programme/eventdetails/1785/
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