Ursula—That’s Me. So What? March 18 – July 23, 2023 Museum Ludwig Heinrich-Böll-Platz 50667 Köln Germany Back to the 50s March 27, 2023 – May 8, 2023 Kunsthandel Jörg Maass Rankestrasse 24 Wilmersdorf – Berlin, Germany 10789 Ursula Schultze-Bluhm (1921-1999) was an important connection for Virginia Fontaine. She worked for the Amerika Haus in Frankfurt…
Fontaine Archive holdings acquired by the University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center
AUSTIN, Texas — A collection of artworks, photographs, correspondence, rare publications and other materials related to artists Paul and Virginia Fontaine that offers a unique look at the role of artists in the rebuilding of post-World War II Europe has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The…
Trusted Eye featured in podcasts
Claudia Chidester has been interviewed on 15 radio and podcast stations from Dubai to as local as Dallas, with Cedar Rapids, IA, Little Falls, MN, Lexington, KY, Amherst, VA, and Carbondale, IL, in between. Check out these recordings for in-depth discussions by some talented interviewers. Art Curious Interview with Jennifer Dasal in Raleigh, NC, 7…
34th annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book award winner.
Trusted Eye is a 2022 Silver Winner for the 34th annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Award in two categories, cover design, and coffee-table format. IBPA is the oldest and largest association of independent book publishers, established in 1983. It was started to level the playing field for small and independent book publishers through educational opportunities,…
Trusted Eye meets That Which Remains: Bookwoman virtual conversation with the authors, August 19,2021 7pm
Please join us for a virtual conversation between Austin authors Claudia Fontaine Chidester (Trusted Eye: Post–World War II Adventures of a Fearless Art Advocate) and C.F Yetmen (That Which Remains: Anna Klein Triology #3 ) about their new releases, and the different structures of their books in telling the story of women in war-torn postwar Germany. Yetmen’s book is an art crime mystery and…
Exhibition Notice! Women Artists in the Kunsthalle Bern: An Archival Investigation
Kunsthalle Bern BERN | SWITZERLANDMAY 29, 2021 – JUL 25, 2021 For all of you in Switzerland, this is the last week!! This exhibition includes the artist Margrit Linck Daepp (1897-1983), who Virginia visited and whose ceramics she collected whenever she traveled through Bern. Bern had, in fact, three friends she saw: Margrit Linck and…
Exhibition Notice! Modern From the Start at the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art has an exhibition until August 7, 2021 called Modern from the Start about Alexander Calder’s (1898-1976) long residence with MOMA, their “first and only house artist.” Paul Fontaine exhibited with Alexander Calder in Frankfurt in February 1953, but Virginia Fontaine had already met him in September 1952. She had been…
A Note and Connection From Director Claudia Fontaine Chidester
A shout out to Canan Yetmen for her upcoming third volume of the Anna Klein trilogy, All That Remains (Summer 2021). This enthralling climax to the series has all the trappings of a great summer read: complex WWII history, requited love, and the chance to live through the eyes of a passionate woman as she…
Bruni Falcon and the difficult path of an opera singer
Bruni Falcon was an American opera singer born in Boston to German parents as Brunhilda Pfeiffer. Unable to travel to Europe during WWII, Bruni began her professional career at the age of 22 in Mexico City and then toured the U.S. with the Charles Wagner Opera company in 1950. Aside from singing, she was praised…
Castles and Crimes: The Nazis weren’t the only one’s who looted
While Virginia Fontaine witnessed how the occupation forces helped find and repatriate art stolen by the Nazis during her time in post-World World II Germany, the Nazis weren’t the only ones to burglarize homes. Allied military occupying local homes in Germany during the war were reported by the Stars & Stripes military newspaper of stealing…