This exhibit features decorative ceramics by the legendary Goldscheider Manufactory focusing on the beauty of the 1920’s Art Deco Woman. The objects are presented within the post-1848 historical context of Vienna, a time marked by the decline of the Habsburg monarchy and profound innovations in the arts, the sciences, industry and commerce.
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Authors who fled Germany and France following the rise of National Socialism often found themselves stranded abroad without publishers, writing in a language foreign to their host countries. The exhibit “Publishing in Exile” brings together for the first time literary works published by these German-speaking exile publishers in the United States during the Third Reich.
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