CONCERT AT THE FOGG TO PRESENT WORKS BY GERMAN ROMANTIC COMPOSERS
Released: April 7, 1998
In celebration of two special exhibitions, Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe and Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Marcella Calabi, soprano, and Luise Vosgerchian, piano, will present works by German romantic composersæFelix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumannæat the Fogg Art Museum on Sunday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the concert will be sold at the door only. Admission is $7; $5 Harvard students and staff and senior citizens; $4 Friends and children under 12. The doors will open one-half hour before the concert begins and the exhibitions will be open for viewing. Complimentary parking will be available at the Broadway Garage, on the corner of Felton Street and Broadway. For further information, please call (617) 495-4544.
Luise Vosgerchian is Harvard's Walter M. Naumburg Professor of Music, emeritus. She will play Schumann's Humoresque for piano solo, Opus 20 in B-flat. Marcella Calabi, a former student of Vosgerchian, is based in New York where she performs a diverse repertoire of opera, oratorio, chamber music, early music and contemporary music. She is happy to be returning to her alma mater for this concert. Calabi and Vosgerchian together will perform songs by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann. Not only are these composers from the same era as the works on display in the exhibitionsæthe Age of Goetheæbut the songs chosen for the concert are mostly settings of texts by Goethe and by major poets who followed him in the nineteenth century.
Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe is on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum through June 7, 1998. Organized by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fuseli to Menzel consists of eighty German drawings from the years 1750-1850. The works have been selected from one of the world's premiere private collections of drawings from this period, assembled by the Munich lawyer Alfred Winterstein (1898-1976). Exceedingly rare in the private and public collections of the United States, these drawings and watercolors afford the viewer an opportunity to study major works from one of the greatest periods of German art. The exhibition curator and author of the accompanying catalogue is Hinrich Sieveking, curator of the Winterstein Collection. The organizers of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums are William W. Robinson, curator of drawings, and Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum.
Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums is on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum through June 28, 1998. Organized to coincide with the loan exhibition Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe, this exhibition presents forty-three drawings from German-speaking Central Europe, dating between 1770 to 1880, from the permanent collection of the Art Museums. While modest by the standards of German museums or private collections like the one from which Fuseli to Menzel has been selected, Harvard's holdings of drawings from this period rank among the most comprehensive in North America. The works in the exhibition illustrate the major stylistic changes in German art from the neoclassicism of the later eighteenth century to the romantic revolution and early realism of the nineteenth, and they include drawings by some of principal exponents of these trends, such as Anton Raphael Mengs, Henry Fuseli, Joseph Anton Koch, Franz Horny, and Adolph Menzel. In addition to complementing Fuseli to Menzel, the exhibition celebrates a century of collecting Central European drawings at Harvard. Classicism-Romanticism-Realism is organized by William W. Robinson, curator of drawings.
**
For general information on the Harvard University Art Museums, please call (617) 495-9400. For press information or photographs, please contact Kate McShea Ewen at (617) 495-2397. For more information on events please contact the Friends, Fellows, and Special Programs Office at (617) 495-4544. World Wide Web: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
**
The Harvard University Art Museums comprise three museums (Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum), all located on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA, at the intersection of Quincy Street and Broadway, adjacent to Harvard Yard. The Harvard University Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed holidays. Admission is $5.00; $4.00 for senior citizens; $3.00 for students; free under 18 and on Saturday mornings. Harvard University Art Museums' facilities are wheelchair accessible. For special tour reservations, please call (617) 496-8576.
The Harvard University Art Museums is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
-end