The new Mainz magazine is being introduced
Lecture: October 5, 2026, 6:30 p.m. at the Mainz City Archives
The "Mainzer Zeitschrift: Middle Rhine Yearbook for Archaeology, Art, and History" has been published since 1845, and its authors have been researching the history of Mainz and the region ever since. The editor of the Mainzer Zeitschrift, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dobras, is now presenting the latest volume of the yearbook, published by the Mainzer Altertumsverein.
Harald Kubiczak, a graduate designer and one of the authors of the new book, will present his research on the life and work of the long-forgotten Jewish artist Henriette Mannheimer from Mainz this evening.
The Forgotten Artist Henny Mannheimer
“Where we meet her!”—this is the closing sentence of a 1931 newspaper article about Henriette, or Henny for short, Mannheimer. This sentence serves as the thematic framework for an essay and lecture on the Jewish artist, born in Mainz in 1899, about whose life little was previously known. Henriette Mannheimer—her father, Berthold, was a lawyer in Mainz and came from an old Jewish family in Worms—attended the Mainz Girls’ High School, later the School of Art and Crafts, and studied painting in Munich. She created an independent body of work, approximately 250 paintings, prints, and sculptures of which were exhibited at the Mainz Kunsthalle in the summer of 1931. Two years later, Henriette Mannheimer fled to Paris with her parents and her siblings, Gisela and Herbert. In exile, she continued her artistic work and exhibited at the Salons d’Automne. Thanks to Harald Kubiczak’s research in archives in France, Israel, and elsewhere, as well as a collection in Switzerland attributed to her for the first time, it is now possible to present a portion of the artist’s previously lost work, her life in exile, her early death, and the fates of her loved ones.
