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The exhibition “Eine Enterbung” at the Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL) is the result of an artistic exploration, ongoing since 1994, by the British painter and filmmaker Barbara Loftus (b. 1946) into the earlier life of her mother, Hildegard, née Basch (1915–2007). She escaped the Nazi regime and went into exile in Britain, whilst her parents and brother were deported to Auschwitz on 14 December 1942 and murdered there. The exhibition opens on 27 March and runs until 25 May 2026 at the Haus am Lützowplatz.
For decades, the daughter knew little in concrete terms about her mother’s childhood in Berlin-Schöneberg during the 1920s; about her upbringing in the initially upper-middle-class apartment at Lutherstraße 51 (renamed Keithstraße 14 in 1939); about the financial difficulties faced by her grandparents, Sigismund and Herta, during the period of hyperinflation and the global economic crisis; or about the increasingly severe social marginalisation of the Jewish population from 1933 onwards, culminating in …
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Image above: Barbara Loftus, Witnessing the Confiscation (Detail), 2022, Ölfarbe auf Leinwand / oil on canvas, 167 x 140 cm
