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
On Saturday April 21st, 2018 the Eric W. Gritsch Fund hosted a curator led tour of the 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 highlighted the Vienna Secession, an influential group of artists who sought to break free from academic art of the past. Deatils about the work of 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.
Gritsch Fund Fellowship Winner Was In Rome
Thomas Santa Maria reported to us from his recent research and adventures in Rome!
Details Follow His Progress
LUTHER AND BODIES:
IMPLICATIONS OF INCARNATION
The 5th Annual Theological Symposium
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