March Exhibition Highlights Art by Post-War German Emigres
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. — The work of German-born artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II will be shown at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus in March.

The "German Accents" exhibition will take place in the Campus’s Salena Gallery from March 1 to March 31. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, March 3, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The exhibition presents the work of six artists born in Germany in the fifteen years prior to the war and who emigrated to the U.S. within 15 years after the war. The artists are Caspar Henselmann, who is also the curator, Kathrin Hilten, Manfred Mohr, Roni Nicholson, Ulrich Niemeyer and Hanne Tierney.

The exhibition expresses the major influences on these artists: the war and post-war experience, emigration and adjustment to a different culture, modernist and post-modernist art trends or an amalgam of all these factors. It is also meant to educate and enlighten by presenting the concerns of a previous generation to the Campus’s recent immigrants and ethnically diverse students.

Says Henselmann, "My present concerns are with expanding universes, physics, philosophy and how to translate abstract concepts and information into a visual statement. Art is a reflection of our thoughts. And since most ideas are complex, so is Art."

Gallery hours are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call Gallery Manager Nancy Grove at (718) 488-1198.

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus opened in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. More than 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the University’s three residential and three regional compuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus.