Ruta at table in New York with the director of the Leipzig Stadtgeschichliches Museum in May 2015. Dr Rodekamp and his partner Ursula had come to visit Ruta, the subject of a splendid retrospective in his native Leipzig in 2008, his 90th birthday. “For your 100th we’ll do another show,” Dr R said. Not to be, but meanwhile he installed one of Ruta’s paintings of New York City in the museum’s permanent exhibit of Leipzig painters of the 20th century. Ruta’s family fled Nazi persecution in Leipzig in the 1930s, but this was a way of correcting history, belatedly, symbolically. These days Leipzig is busy finding a new life for 5000 Syrian refugees. More about that some other day.
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