Exhibition and Artist Talk
Picturing a Life - The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

Thu, 04/07/2022
6:30 PM Goethe-Institut Washington @ The Liz

Mark your calendar on April 7, 2022 at 6:30 PM for an Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk with New Yorker Magazine cartoonist and writer Ken Krimstein and comic connoisseur Warren Bernard!

The exhibition will feature original drawings from Ken Krimstein’s acclaimed graphic novel The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt.

Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman, whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.

Taking Hannah Arendt’s revolutionary and highly controversial thinking as a reference, Ken Krimstein highlights the complexity of who Hannah Arendt was. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933, first to Paris and then later to the United States, Arendt went on to become one of the great icons of our time. Krimstein weaves together Arendt’s dramatic biography and her ideas together in this charming, often funny, book. Illustrated in muted greys, Krimstein uses a splash of green to highlight the figure of Arendt in each drawing, picturing her with a serious countenance, a mass of curls, and a cigarette perpetually dangling from her fingers.