Symposium—Bauhaus 100: Object Lessons from a Historic Collection

Talk: Otti Berger’s “Bauhaus Picture Book” with Annie Bourneuf, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This symposium is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition “The Bauhaus and Harvard,” on view from February 8 to July 28, 2019. Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. A century later, we continue to learn from the rich trove of student exercises, iconic design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials in the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection. Join us as leading and emerging scholars share new research on these objects and related works in Harvard collections. Explore more about the Bauhaus centenary at [ Ссылка ].

Speaker: Annie Bourneuf is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her book “Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible (2015)” was awarded the 2016 Robert Motherwell Book Award. She is currently at work on a second book, The “Angelus Novus” and “Its Interleaf.”

Support for this symposium is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.Support for the Bauhaus exhibition is provided by endowed funds, including the Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund, the Charles L. Kuhn Endowment Fund, and the Care of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection Fund. In addition, exhibition-related programming is made possible by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Friday, March 29, 2019, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums.

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