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37-503: By the 1980s, the city of Osnabrück, Germany, had begun to embrace Nussbaum as a native son. An exhibition of his major works was organized at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1985. Soon after, the city's Museum of Cultural History set aside two rooms for a permanent exhibition. In 1991, Osnabrück decided to dedicate a museum to one of its natives, Felix Nussbaum, a Jewish painter murdered in

74-557: A $ 17 million annual budget. Under Joan Rosenbaum's leadership the museum's collection grew to 26,000 objects, its endowment to more than $ 92 million and its annual operating budget to $ 15 million from $ 1 million in 1981. Rosenbaum chose to emphasize the Jewish side of the museum's identity, creating the permanent exhibition "Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey," while also mounting shows of modern Jewish artists such as Chaïm Soutine and contemporary artists such as Maira Kalman . In 2013,

111-712: A $ 90,000 gift to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to commemorate her father's 90th birthday anniversary in 1937. Warburg became vice-president of the Jewish Welfare Board in 1937, served as honorary vice-president of the Welfare Council of New York City from 1943 to 1945, and was an honorary president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and an honorary vice-president of

148-482: A bullying, intimidating, harassing, or sexually inappropriate manner." In 2022, Yale University historian Michael Casper criticized the museum's exhibition on Jonas Mekas for its lack of treatment of Mekas's role in editing two pro-Nazi newspapers during World War II. Cultural historian Jeffrey Shandler told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency , "It would be problematic anywhere, in any museum. But I think it

185-461: A connection to the art." Programming at the Jewish Museum caters for many different constituents, from live musical performances to events specifically curated for children, and families. Events can be co-sponsored or in conjunction with other museums, particularly those located nearby on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile . Part of the goal of family programming is to help foster a younger audience for

222-452: Is built in limestone with mansard roofs, dripping moldings, and gables. This architectural style was based on French revivalism and exuded wealth, a point which Felix Warburg wanted to make to his neighbors. It featured a green yard in front of the house, which was later converted into the museum's entrance. Once converted into a museum, the architect Kevin Roche , who also designed additions to

259-482: Is carved in Gothic revival style. The auditorium is set in a retrofitted Gothic revival style ballroom and finds uses for the mansion's stained-glass dome and screen. The cafe in the basement has stained glass windows. Although these additions that were intended as a continuation of the museum's Gothic revival features, Roche also included additions that were meant to prevent the museum from appearing outdated and modernizing

296-644: Is doubly so in a Jewish museum. It really raises questions about their understanding of their mission." The Russ & Daughters Cafe at the museum closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City . In November 2024, the restaurateur David Teyf opened a restaurant named Lox in the museum. The Felix M. Warburg House was constructed in François I (or châteauesque ) style, 1906-1908 for Felix and Frieda Warburg, designed by C.P.H. Gilbert . François I style

333-409: Is powerful enough on its own that it would have benefitted from being exhibited in a more neutral space. 52°16′32″N 8°2′20″E  /  52.27556°N 8.03889°E  / 52.27556; 8.03889 Jewish Museum (Manhattan) The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue , in the former Felix M. Warburg House , along

370-712: The Brearley School . Warburg participated with her husband Felix in numerous cultural and philanthropic undertakings he was associated with. Active in interests of her own, she served as president of the Young Women's Hebrew Association from 1928 to 1938. She was active in Hadassah , serving as honorary chairman of the building fund campaign of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem . She

407-848: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America on January 20, 1904, where it was housed in the seminary's library. The collection was moved in 1931, with the Seminary, to 122nd and Broadway. The Jewish Theological Seminary received over 400 Jewish ceremonial items and created, 'The Museum of Jewish Ceremonial Objects', previously the Jacob Schiff Library. The collection was subsequently expanded by major donations from Hadji Ephraim Benguiat and Harry G. Friedman . In 1939, in light of WWII , Poland sent about 350 objects to New York city from homes and synagogues in order to preserve them. Following Felix Warburg's death in 1937, in January 1944 his widow Frieda donated

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444-989: The Library of Congress , the National Gallery of Art , the New York Public Library , the Morgan Library , the Mannes College of Music , the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science , the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Princeton University , New York University , and the Harvard Art Museums . In 1945, she received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Hebrew Union College and an honorary L.H.D. degree from

481-617: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , was selected to design additions to the Jewish Museum. After $ 36 million, the development of 11,000 more square feet of exhibition space, and two and a half years, Roche finished his additions in June 1993. He intended his additions to be a continuation of the museum's Gothic revival features. This is especially clear in the Fifth Avenue facade and the auditorium. The Fifth Avenue facade, made of Indiana limestone,

518-528: The Women's City Club . In 1895, Warburg married banker and philanthropist Felix M. Warburg of the Warburg family , who became senior partner of her father and grandfather's firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Their children were banker Frederick Marcus , cellist Gerald Felix, banker Paul Felix , and philanthropist Edward Mortimer Morris . She also had a daughter Carola, who married Edward M. Rothschild. In 1956, she donated

555-533: The concentration camp where he was killed. The galleries house approximately 160 of Nussbaum's paintings. According to The Times , the museum, whose "narrow tunnel and subdued lighting impose an atmosphere of oppression,""clearly uses the idiom of displacement, loss and incomprehension." Jonathan Glancey , in The Guardian , calls it "a masterpiece...in architectural dialogue with the paintings hung on its walls." Detractors, however, have said that Nussbaum's work

592-455: The 1960s, the museum took a more active role in the general world of contemporary art, with exhibitions such as Primary Structures , which helped to launch the Minimalist art movement. In the decades since, the museum has had a renewed focus on Jewish culture and Jewish artists. From 1990 through 1993, director Joan Rosenbaum led the project to renovate and expand the building and carry out

629-540: The Holocaust. In 1996, Daniel Libeskind 's proposal, titled "Museum Without Exit," won the competition to design the building, which was completed in 1998. The new museum was inaugurated by Gerhard Schröder , then prime minister of Lower Saxony and later Chancellor of Germany . The museum was Libeskind's first completed project. The museum consists of three intersecting "volumes." The oak volume houses Nussbaum's prewar art. The second volume, which slices violently through

666-679: The International Youth Aliyah Committee. She created a $ 500,000 fund to support the Visiting Nursing Service of New York in 1924, and in 1951 she contributed $ 650,000 to the UJA for housing and educating new Israeli immigrants to Israel. She became a director of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1938, like her father, husband, and brother before her. The first (and for much of her tenure only) woman director of

703-665: The Jewish Museum suspended Hoffmann from his position following allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by multiple staff members. In the wake of that decision, the Honolulu Biennial cut its ties with Hoffmann, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit suspended him from his role as chief curator at large (a position from which he resigned later that month) and the Kadist Art Foundation similarly suspended him from his position as curator and adviser. The 3rd People's Biennial

740-665: The Jewish Theological Seminary, making the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the latter school. In 1952, the Palestine Economic Corporation named her one of the six American builders of Israel. In 1956, the Joint Distribution Committee named a home for the aged in Netanya, Israel after her. She was affiliated with Congregation Emanu-El , politically a Democrat, and a member of the Century Club and

777-585: The Museum Mile on the Upper East Side of Manhattan , New York City . The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture excluding Israeli museums , more than 30,000 objects. While its collection was established in 1904 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , the museum did not open to

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814-483: The Seminary, she was consulted about their programs for women. In 1944, she donated her husband's mansion on Fifth Avenue to the Seminary. In 1947, they opened the mansion as the Jewish Museum . While she and her husband supported development in Israel before and after it became a state, she wasn't a Zionist. A patron of the arts, Warburg gifted paintings and etchings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Vassar College ,

851-414: The facilities. For instance, Roche ensured that the education center and the auditorium would have the appropriate technology for their purposes, such as interactive visual displays. The museum has nearly 30,000 objects including paintings, sculptures , archaeological artifacts, Jewish ceremonial art and many other pieces important to the preservation of Jewish history and culture. Artists included in

888-516: The family mansion to the seminary as a permanent home for the museum, and the site opened to the public as 'The Jewish Museum' in May 1947. Frieda Warburg said at the opening that the museum would not be a somber memorial, but rather a celebration of the Jewish faith and traditions. The first expansion of the museum was the addition of a sculpture garden in 1959 by Adam List. The building was expanded in 1963 and further by architect Kevin Roche in 1993. In

925-566: The first, is made from concrete and contains the paintings Nussbaum made while in hiding from the Nazis . Dubbed "Nussbaum Gang," it evokes the cramped quarters in Brussels where Nussbaum painted his last canvasses. The metal volume displays the artist's newly discovered paintings. The interior is labyrinthine and many paths lead to dead ends. The museum's sides face three cities where Nussbaum studied art: Berlin , Rome , and Hamburg . The fourth side faces

962-582: The museum one day a month for a program like the Verbal Description Tour. Participants are guided around sections of the empty museum by an art educator, who provides detailed, verbal descriptions of the art work, shares touch objects, and encourages discussion amongst the visitors. One participant described the ability to touch the art work as "...an honor, to be able to touch it. It felt like we were doing something so special, that other people can't do. So it actually creates an experience where you feel

999-463: The museum's board chose Claudia Gould, former director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia , as its new director. In 2015 Kelly Taxter was named one of the top 25 female curators in the world by ArtNet. Frieda Schiff Warburg Frieda Warburg ( née Schiff; February 3, 1876 – September 14, 1958) was a Jewish-American philanthropist and communal worker from New York. Warburg

1036-529: The museum's collection include James Tissot , Marc Chagall , George Segal , Eleanor Antin and Deborah Kass . This represents the largest collection of Jewish art , Judaica and broadcast media outside of museums in Israel . It has a collection exhibition called Scenes from the Collection , which displays works of art from antiquity to the present. The museum's collection includes objects from ancient to modern eras, in all media, and originated in every area of

1073-598: The museum's first major capital campaign, of $ 60 million. The project, designed by architect Kevin Roche, doubled the size of the museum, providing it with a seven-story addition. In 1992, the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center teamed up to create The New York Jewish Film Festival, which presents narrative features, short films and documentaries. Today, the museum also provides educational programs for adults and families, organizing concerts, films, symposiums and lectures related to its exhibitions. Joan Rosenbaum

1110-402: The museum, with Sunday being "family day", with a variety of activities on offer including gallery tours, free art workshops and parent-children storybook readings. Activities are designed to cross cultures, and explore subjects that can appeal to any race or religion, such as archaeological digs or an examination of color and impressionistic landscapes. As of 2013, the Jewish Museum operates on

1147-423: The public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary. It focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. The museum's collection exhibition, Scenes from the Collection , is supplemented by multiple temporary exhibitions each year. The collection that seeded the museum began with a gift of Jewish ceremonial art objects from Judge Mayer Sulzberger to

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1184-450: The world where Jews have had a presence. Some of the museum's important exhibitions have included: The Jewish Museum has a vast array of public educational programs which include talks and lectures, performances, hands on art making, group visits, specialist programming for visitors with disabilities, and resources for Pre-K-12 teachers. Programming for visitors with disabilities can take a unique and special form, with exclusive access to

1221-669: Was also honorary chairman of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City and chairman of the women's division of its 1930 campaign, honorary chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee , and an executive committee member of the Welfare Council of New York City. She regularly donated to various causes, creating a $ 500,000 fund for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in 1924 and giving

1258-479: Was born on February 3, 1876, in New York City, New York , the daughter of Jacob Schiff and Therese Loeb. A member of New York City's German Jewish elite, her father was a preeminent Jewish communal leader and head of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. , and her maternal grandfather was a founder of the banking firm. She had an opulent private education, although her formal education ended after she graduated from

1295-676: Was originally found in New York City in the late 19th century through the works of Richard Morris Hunt . Hunt was a renowned architect throughout the Northeast, particularly in New England and was one of the first American architects to study at the elite Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. C.P.H. Gilbert was an apprentice of Hunt and emulated Hunt's classic Châteauesque style for the Warburg house while also adding some Gothic features. The original house

1332-464: Was supposed to take place at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019, with Hoffmann co-directing; however, the museum suspended its involvement with Hoffmann after the sexual harassment allegations at the Jewish Museum were not resolved. On December 17, 2017, the Jewish Museum terminated Hoffmann after a review of the allegations. Hoffmann denied "knowingly or purposefully [behaving] in

1369-402: Was the museum's director from 1981 until her retirement in 2010. In 2006, the museum broke with its longstanding policy of being closed for Sabbath observance by offering free of charge public admission on Saturdays. In 2011 the museum named Claudia Gould as its new director. In 2012 Claudia Gould hired Jens Hoffmann Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs. In early December 2017,

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