8-Postwar Period to Today

Lou Albert-Lasard was one of the artists who, as daughters of assimilated Jewish families, had long not received the recognition they deserved. After the First World War, she had a significant influence on modern art in many respects. From the Expressionism of the Munich art group "Blauer Reiter", to the environment of the École de Paris and ultimately the Berlin years in the November Group - she had a wide range of experiences and herself contributed to the development and dissemination of formative art styles of the 20th century.

The Hungarian-Jewish intellectual Georg Lukács became known throughout Europe in the 20th century. He was a cultural critic, literary scholar, philosopher, Marxist, party functionary - and much more. He is known today primarily as one of the most important Marxist theorists of the 20th century. His life was synchronized with the historical 20th century - with all its caesurae and upheavals.

"I have never poetized a line that would have had nothing to do with my existence."
From this quote by the writer and poet Paul Celan, it is clear how closely his work was interwoven with his biography. As a Jewish, German-speaking poet of Romanian origin, he processed the horror of the Shoah in his texts. His best-known poem Todesfuge has been printed and adapted many times.