VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Holocaust Museum Houston will host two public lectures featuring internationally known experts on the Holocaust along with the film “The Rape of Europa” as part of the eighth annual Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators held at Holocaust Museum Houston July 6-9, 2010.

The institute is a four-day program that moves beyond the general history of the Holocaust to explore the various dimensions and implications of the Holocaust and other genocides. The institute, held each summer, provides substantive content and the opportunity to network with internationally known scholars of the Holocaust and teachers from around the world. Working in the Museum’s exhibit space and classrooms, teachers grow in their understanding of the Holocaust and refine their skills to teach about the history and lessons of the Holocaust.

Sessions open to the public this year include a presentation on The Roma in the Contemporary World by Dr. Ian Hancock, professor and director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 6 in the Museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater; On Wednesday, July 7, the Museum will present the film The Rape of Europa beginning at 6:30 p.m. also in the Museum’s Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater at 5401 Caroline, in Houston’s Museum District;On Thursday, July 8, Nancy Yeide, head of the Department of Curatorial Records at The National Gallery of Art since 1990, will speak on The Creation of “Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Brown Auditorium Theater, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet.

The Creation of Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection
Presenter Nancy Yeide
July 8, 2010 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Brown Auditorium Theater, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet

The head of the Department of Curatorial Records at The National Gallery of Art since 1990, Nancy Yeide has been involved in World War II-era provenance for the last decade. As an internationally recognized expert on the history of art collecting in the 19th and 20th centuries, she has taken a leading role in conducting provenance research on works in the gallery´s collection and has spoken and written widely on the subject. Yeide was named the prestigious Ailsa Mellon Bruce Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow for 2002-2003, during which time she researched the art collection of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering.

The results of her extensive research were recently published in the catalogue raisonné "Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection." According to Yeide, next to Hitler, Goering was the most voracious collector of artworks plundered from Nazi-occupied lands. Goering believed himself to be a sophisticated connoisseur and, in his own mind, a Renaissance man. At his country estate, Carinhall, outside Berlin, Goering built galleries to display his growing collection. Yeide´s analysis suggests that the Goering Collection held more than 1,800 works, looted from collections, museums and galleries across Nazi-occupied Europe.

Yeide holds a master of arts degree from American University and serves on a number of professional advisory panels. She is a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics at universities and museums around the world.

Admission is free, but seating is limited, and advance registration is recommended. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx  to RSVP online. A reception to meet the speaker follows the lecture.

This program has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. For their support of the Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators, Holocaust Museum Houston thanks the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; the Max M. Kaplan Teacher Education Fund; the Chevra Kadisha Holocaust Studies Scholarship Fund; the Lea K. Weems Memorial Scholarship Fund; H-E-B, Corporate Chairman Circle Member; and Continental Airlines, the official airline of Holocaust Museum Houston.

For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail mwebeck@hmh.org.