Dr. Eric W. Gritsch
The Rev. Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund, Ltd.
PO Box 23064
Baltimore, MD 21203-5064
bonnie
The Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund
SACRED SPRING, Vienna Secession Posters
Koloman Moser. Poster for the 5th Secession Exhibition, 1899
Baltimore Museum of Art
Rena Hoisington, Curator
Saturday, April 21, 10:30am–12:30pm
The Eric W. Gritsch Fund invites you to join us for a curator led tour of the upcoming exhibit, Sacred Spring: Vienna Secession Posters from the Collection of LeRoy E. Hoffberger and Paula Gately Tillman Hoffberger at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which highlights the Vienna Secession, an influential group of artists who sought to break free from academic art of the past. We will learn about Gustav Klimt, Kolman Moser, Egon Schiele, and Peter Behren's influential 1898 color woodcut The Kiss from Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Rena Hoisington.
Please RSVP by April 20th
by email to Paul Espinosa, pespino3@jhu.edu, subject line: “BMA Gritsch Tour”
Limit: 20 people, first to respond
Fee: $25.00 per person (check to: Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund)
Gritsch Fund Fellowship Winner Is In Rome
Thomas Santa Maria is currently reporting to us from his research and adventures in Rome!
Details Follow His Progress
LUTHER AND BODIES:
IMPLICATIONS OF INCARNATION
was held Saturday March 10th, 2018 again at the historic
George Peabody Library
at Mt. Vernon Place Baltimore, Maryland
Photos
From Conflict to Communion –
The First Joint Commemoration of the Reformation
Lutherans and Roman Catholics Together Article
Bibliomania: 150 Years of Collecting Rare Books at the George Peabody Library
A Tour By Curator Paul Espinosa
was held Saturday, January 20th, 2018. Photos
Lutherfest 2017
Was held on Sunday November 5th, 2017
Photos & Details
UNCERTAIN TIMES:
MARTIN LUTHER'S REMEDIES FOR THE SOUL
A behind-the-scenes Tour and Talk at the Walters Art
Museum was held Saturday, September 16th, 2017
Photos
2018 Letter from the board to the friends of the fund
Rev Dr. Eric W. Gritsch served as Emeritus Professor of Church History, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary where he also directed the Institute for Luther Studies. A native of Austria, he experienced firsthand the reign of Adolf Hitler and the tyranny of Communism; he came to the United States in 1954. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He had taught at Wellesley College, the Catholic University of America, California Lutheran University, the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, and in the Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Chair at the Melanchthon Institute in Houston, TX.
Dr. Gritsch participated for two decades in the North American Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue, and has served for a decade of the Board of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology, St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. The Rev. Eric W. Gritsch and his spouse Bonnie Brobst lived in Baltimore Maryland and he was a member of Zion Church of Baltimore.
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The Rev. Dr. Eric W. Gritsch Memorial Fund, Ltd.
PO Box 23064
Baltimore, MD 21203-5064
bonnie