Significant events

Conference of Marie Luise Syring

Contrapuntal Objectivity Extract from a lecture given by Marie Luise Syring on Tuesday September 26th 2006 at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg. In 1925 gallery owner Léonce Rosenberg put Marcelle Cahn in touch with Fernand Léger. She then worked under the direction of Fernand Léger but also with Amédée Ozenfant.…During those years Léger takes a […]

The memorial plaque

The memorial plaque which was fixed to the outside wall of the building 5 rue de la Mésange, in honour of Marcelle Cahn, is a reproduction of a lithography published with Jean Hans Arp Dada poem , “Blatt um Feder um Blatt”. ” … whiteness with shapes of very simple structure.” Michel Seuphor. Marcelle Cahn […]

Naming a street for Marcelle Cahn

On Monday, 3 July 2006 the local council decided to name a street for Marcelle Cahn in the “Poteries” district of Strasbourg-Koenigshoffen : No through road        This new street cuts straight across Cerf Berr Street. For more information about Cerf Berr follow this link : http://judaisme.sdv.fr/perso/cerfberr/biog.htm

Screening of a film about Marcelle Cahn

The tribute to Marcelle Cahn continues… An evening event was held on March 17, 2007, at the Auditorium of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg. The evening began with a screening of the film “Marcelle Cahn: The Keys to Seeing,” directed in 1976 by Pierre Gisling for Swiss Romande Television. This unique […]