Galka Scheyer

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Galka Scheyer A Jewish Woman in International Art Business Schriftenreihe der Bet Tfila – Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa – Band 13 Katrin Keßler (Ed.) Galka (Emmy E.) Scheyer (1889–1945) was an extraordinary woman: Jewish, painter, art collector, and mediator. After meeting the Bauhaus artists Alexej von Jawlensky, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee, she founded the artists’ group “The Blue Four” along with them. To promote her “four kings” not only in Europe, she emigrated to the US in 1924. Scheyer organized exhibitions and gave lectures all over the world. The ­famous architect Richard Neutra designed a gallery building for her in the Hollywood Hills, where she lived and welcomed art collectors and Hollywood’s high society, including ­Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Fritz Lang, and Josef von Sternberg. She died in Hollywood in 1945. This volume presents the papers held at the Galka Scheyer international conference in Braunschweig, the city of her birth, in November, 2019. Katrin Keßler, born 1971 in Dillenburg; study of architecture and doctors degree (about synagogues) at the TU Braunschweig, since 2001 academic assistant at the Bet Tfila – Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur, TU Braunschweig, involved in different research projects on history of jewish architecture. Stay for research in Israel, in between engaged at the TU Berlin, since 2018 research at the Institute for the history of the german jews in Hamburg the topic of jewish architects.

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