Incessant Visions - Letters from an Architect -The Peter Oberlander Memorial Fund Film

Summary

In 1933 the Nazis came to power. As a Jew, Erich rapidly stopped getting commissions and was excluded from the architects union. Before it was too late, he fled to London. Arriving at Victoria train station, he pulled a pencil and said to a friend: "Look, I brought my office with me!" In London he met Chaim Weitzman, the future president of Israel, who offered him to become the "national architect" of the Jewish-state-to-be. He moved his office to Jerusalem in 1937 where he met many of his Bauhaus colleagues and clients from Berlin. In 1941, when the German army led by Rommel was on the verge of crossing into Egypt, Louise and Erich fled again, this time to the US. His long time friend, Frank Lloyd Wright, helped him to arrange an exhibition of his works at the MOMA in New York. But on the day of the opening, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and a national tragedy foreshadowed his attempt to launch a new career.

Canadian Premiere

Awards

2011 Jerusalem International Film Festival:  Honourable Mention

Screenings

The Ridge Theatre
November 19 2011 | 06:15 PM