From 10 September to 10 April, 2016
Missing Images
On display at the Robert Guttmann Gallery of the Jewish Museum in Prague is “The Missing Images”, the exhibition dedicated to the phenomenon of the Jews, who fled from Eastern Europe to America between 1880 and 1934. A fundamental stopping place of their journey was the port of Antwerp, from where the Red Star Line shipping company – in the course of half a century – took on board three million European migrants headed towards the New World. The Belgian painter Eugeen van Mieghem, who witnessed the events, fixed the mass Exodus on canvas. Next to his fifty painting, the exhibition displays posters of the Red Star Line and old photographs of the port. Organized by the Jewish Museum in Prague, in collaboration with the Eugeen van Mieghem Foundation and the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, the exhibition is supported by the Kingdom of Belgium.
