Brucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg:

The exhibition From Monet to Picasso. Jewish Art Collectors in Germany reconstructs 15 important art collections assembled by German Jews before 1945. It brings together many of their modernist masterpieces, now scattered around the world. Around 100 works are presented, spanning from Realism and Impressionism through to Expressionism and New Objectivity, by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Lovis Corinth, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Milly Steeger, and many others.

The show honours and commemorates the decisive role of Jewish art collectors in the establishment, promotion, and defense of modern art since the turn of the twentieth century. Fifteen families, couples, and individuals are highlighted as representative examples of this collecting activity, including the Hirschland family, Paul and Clothilde Schüler, Max Meirowsky, Rosa Schapire and Margarete Mauthner. Their lifes, marked under National Socialism by exclusion, dispossession, persecution, exile, and murder, are brought into focus through historical documents and photographs.