Promotional material:
Large Christmas Sale at the Ferdinand Grimm Fashion Store
Published in Moravsky sever, 1928

Terrry Haass

Painter, graphic artist and sculptor

She was born in 1923 in Cesky Tesin and before the WWII lived with her mother and younger brother in the town of Mohelnice in Northern Moravia. They lived with her grandfather Ferdinad Grimm, who owned a house and fashion store there. (Presently Italian Cafe, ulice S. K. Neumanna 5). Terry studied in nearby Olomouc in a girl school Pöttingeum. After Nazis occupied the Sudetenland she and her mother and brother escaped to France. They feared for their lives because they were Jews. Shortly after their arrival to Paris in 1939 she started her studies at Ecole des Beaux – Arts. After the occupation of France they left for Portugal and later went to New York, where she received the Scholarship for Art Student's League. During next ten years in States Terry Haass studied art, worked in a studio under the renowned engraver Stanley W. Hayter and met leading figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline a others). In 1950 she began to teach graphic art at the New York City College and met Albert Einstein. His theory regarding time and space strongly influenced her artistic imagination.

House of Ferdinand Grimm, where Terry Haass lived with her mother and brother
Mohelnice circa 1925, Presently Italian Cafe (ulice S. K. Neumanna 5) .

By the end of 1951 Terry returned to Paris and started to work in the Lacouriere studio. Through her work in Paris she met many most important contemporary artists (Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, André Masson and others). Besides art she devoted her time to classical archeology. After receiving a degree in archeology from the Ecole du Louvre she took a part in archeology expeditions to Turkey, Libanon, Izrael, Iran and Afghanistan. Experience from expeditions influenced her art and also her writing. Terry's book Inanna, which was published in 1961, is inspired by Sumerian poetry from the third millennium BC. During 1960s she worked as an artist and also as archeologist, while from early 1970s she concentrates on art – especially on painting, graphic art and sculptures made of plexiglass or steel. Her work is shown in major galleries and museums in France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, United States and other countries.
Terry Haas received many medals and awards including the Silver Medal for sculpture from Bilan de l‘Art Contemporain, Quebec, Canada and the Gold Medal for sculpture from Akademie Leonardo da Vinci, Rom, Italy.
Her work is represented in several foremost public and private collections e.g.: Museum of Modern Art , New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Art, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institute, Washnigton, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel; MusÊe d'Art Moderne de la Vile Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Muzeum umeni, Olomouc; Baronix Alix von Rothschild, Paris, J. J. Rockefeller j.r., New York and many others.

Tombstone of Ferdinand Grimm
Born 1871, died June 13, 1934 Jewish Cemetery in Usov

Grandfather of Terry Haass - Ferdinand Grimm died in Mohelnice in 1934 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Usov. Several relatives including her father perished in the holocaust. Terry Haass lives and works in Paris. She is in a contact with the foundation Respect and Tolerance. In 2006 the foundation established Terry Haass Award for students and teachers who take part in Respect and Tolerance educational and art programs. For more information please see: Others – Prizes and Awards – Terry Haass Award.

Promotional material:
Large Christmas Sale at the Ferdinand Grimm Fashion Store
Published in Moravsky sever, 1928

By the end of 1920s Ferdinand Grimm (Terry's grandfather) transferred the enterprise to his heirs and the store's sign was changed to „Egon Goldmann nastupce Ferdinanda Grimma“.

Sources and literature:
Simkova, A., Renotiere, G.(ed).: Terry Haass svetlo - cas – prostor. Exhibition catalogue.Muzeum umeni Olomouc, 2006
Rosatzin, E.: Jews in Mohelnice. Record of oral history, Warden 2003. (-Respekt and Tolerance Archives-) R&T Archives.
Achab, J.: Project keshet –Jewish Cemetery Usov, 2004
Moravsky sever 1928. Promotional material.
Col.: Terry Haass – graphisches Werk. Exhibition catalogue, Bochum 1997
Letters from Terry Haass. R&T Archives.