Overview
- Leipzig is hosting two coordinated shows on Fred Stein at the Capa‑Haus and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as part of Saxony’s Year of Jewish Culture.
- The Capa‑Haus exhibition features 30 photographs of children displaced by the Spanish Civil War and remains on view until 31 July.
- At the National Library, Out of Exile centers on Stein’s portraits of exiled thinkers and artists, on view until 4 July, including a 1946 image of Albert Einstein.
- Stein, born in Dresden in 1909 and trained in law in Leipzig, fled Nazi Germany to Paris and later reached New York, where he built a noted career as a portrait photographer.
- Public programs include talks and film screenings with his son, Peter Stein, while coverage differs on whether the family left France for New York in 1940 or 1941.