Opening Soon: Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55


Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55

The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines the highly charged artistic landscape in Germany from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. The exhibition focuses on modern art created at a time when Germans were forced to acknowledge and reckon with the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, the country’s defeat and occupation by the Allies, and the ideological ramifications of the fledgling Cold War.

Opening Celebration
Lecture by artist Konrad Klapheck and conversation with exhibition curator Lynette Roth at 6pm, followed by a reception and open galleries
Thursday, February 8, 5–9pm

WOYZECK/GALILEO
Student-produced theatrical adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck and Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo
Friday and Saturday, February 23–24, 7–9 pm

Gallery Talks
Offered regularly throughout the run of the exhibition; check the calendar for details

Sound Experiments
Listening sessions focused on experimental electronic music from the postwar period; check the calendar for details  

#Inventur

 

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with two essays and sixty in-depth object entries written by the curator and emerging scholars in the field. This publication, the first of its kind in English, will contribute a wealth of new knowledge to scholarly understanding of 20th-century German art.


Inventur: An Introduction from the Curator
Index magazine
Curator Lynette Roth introduces our special exhibition Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55.  

Putting It Together
Index magazine
Planning the special exhibition Inventur required extensive institutional research and in-depth conversations with artists and their heirs.  

 

Support for this project was provided by the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Verein der Freunde des Busch-Reisinger Museums) and by endowed funds, including the Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund, the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, and the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund. In addition, 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.

Image: Hans Uhlmann, Male Head | Männlicher Kopf, 1942. Steel. Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, FrK 4237/1995. © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Jürgen Diemer.



 
           
Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.