R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra were arguably the first German-speaking artists of modernist orientation to settle in the Los Angeles area. They thus became the advance guards of an extraordinary influx of émigrés who, in the wake of Nazi takeover in 1933, came to encompass many leading figures in architecture, literature, film, and music. In this talk I will consider Schindler and Neutra’s complex links both to the emigration and to Southern California modernism.
Alex ross
Alex Ross has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the books The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Listen to This, and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. He is now at work on a history of the German-speaking emigration in Los Angeles.
Lecture Series is part of the centennial celebration of the Schindler House, made possible with support from the Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture, City of West Hollywood, California Arts Council, Department of Cultural Affairs, the MAK Center Centennial Council, the MAK Center Patron program, and our sponsors.
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