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Article: Izhar Patkin at Holly Solomon.
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
- Author:
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With this exhibition Izhar Patkin excavates a little-known episode from Jewish history to shed light on the precarious status of even the most accomplished and assimilated German Jews in 18th-century Prussia. Patkin takes as his playing field the history of three generations of the Mendelssohn family. Patriarch Moses was a prominent philosopher, businessman and author, and a fervent apostle of Jewish emancipation. His daughter, who changed her name to Dorothea von Schlegel, was an early proponent of women's liberation. A grandson, Felix, was a celebrated composer, an art also practiced by Felix's lesser-known sister, Fanny.
Patkin commemorates this accomplished ...
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