Eric und Jula Isenburger Gesellschaft e.V.

Negresse, Berlin 1932	Eric Isenburger was born in 1902 in Frankfurt am Main. He met Jula Elenbogen and they married in 1927. A year later the young couple moved to Vienna, where a period of intense artistic work in painting and dance began. In 1931 Eric and Jula decided to move to Berlin, which was still at this time an important centre of contemporary art. Eric Isenburger very successfully exhibited in Berlin. However, several articles appeared in the National Socialist press attacking the work of the painter and in 1933 Eric and Jula Isenburger left Berlin in a hurry, heeding the advice of Eric´s gallerist Wolfgang Gurlitt that they "should take a short vacation" abroad.
Eva Marcu, Nizza 1937	Their exile led the couple via Paris and Stockholm to Nice. There in southern France Eric Isenburger was imprisoned as a German national along with other emigrés in an internment camp for several months. With the support of the Thomas Mann committee and under dangerous circumstances the couple manged to leave Europe in 1941.
IJulas Portrait , New York, 1957	Having arrived in New York Jula Isenburger gave up her dancing career in order to support her husband´s new beginning. Throughout the years she was his model and closest confidante. Eric Isenburger exhibited widely in the United States. He became an Academician of the National Academy of Design and taught painting there for many years. In 1994 Eric Isenburger died in New York.
Gran Manan, 1946	In 1999 the first large scale exhibition of his works in Europe after World War Two took place in the gallery of the city of Neuburg on the Danube. Both the exhibition and catalogue were the result of close cooperation with Jula Isenburger. It was during the Neuburg exhibition that the idea of forming a society had its starting point. In April 2000 Jula Isenburger died at the age of 92 in New York. In November 2000 the Eric and Jula Isenburger Society was founded in Neuburg on the Danube.
Jula Isenburger,1937,Paris	Jula Isenburger trained as a dancer in Vienna under the renowned dance teacher Gertrud Kraus. She later became a member of the Mary Wigman School at its Dependance in Berlin under Margarethe Wallmann.
Jula Isenburger, circa 1929 in Vienna	Eric Isenburger designed his wife´s costumes for her solo performances in France to the music of Tschaikovsky, Bartok, Satie, Gershwin, Poulenc and others.
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