The Bauhaus and Harvard

Event Date as Display String:

Friday, May 31, 2019, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, Special Exhibitions Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/5615/the-bauhaus-and-harvard

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Art/Design,Exhibitions Organization/Sponsor:
Organized by the Harvard Art Museums. Curated by Laura Muir, Research
Curator in the Division of Academic and Public Programs, Harvard Art
Museums. Support for this project 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. The publication is supported
by the Harvard Art Museums Mellon Publication Funds, including the
Carola B. Terwilliger 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.
Contact Info: 617-495-9400 Link:
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/5615/the-bauhaus-and-harvard
"The Bauhaus and Harvard" — mounted in conjunction with the 100th
anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany —
presents nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely from
the Busch-Reisinger Museum's extensive Bauhaus collection. Founded in
1919 and closed just 14 years later, the Bauhaus was the 20th
century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design.
Harvard University played host to the first Bauhaus exhibition in the
United States in 1930, and went on to become an unofficial center for
the Bauhaus in America when founding director Walter Gropius joined
Harvard's department of architecture in 1937. Today the
Busch-Reisinger Museum houses the largest Bauhaus collection outside
Germany, initiated and assembled through the efforts of Gropius and
many former teachers and students who emigrated from Nazi Germany,
including Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Lyonel Feininger, and
László Moholy-Nagy. The Harvard Art Museums are closed on major
holidays.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 10:00 to 17:00

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