Birthday Presents: Acquisitions for the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

Edited by Peter Nisbet, with contributions by Joachim Homann, Lisa Lee, Laura Muir, Peter Nisbet, and Adrian Sudhalter

56pp., 32 illus., 20 in color, 2 foldouts, 9 1/2 x 10

ISBN 1-891771-37-X; $15 (paper)

Founded in 1903, Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in America devoted to promoting the appreciation and understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe of all periods, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries. It has brought to a wider public artists and art movements that have had a major impact on the American scene, notably German expressionism and the Bauhaus. It has also served as a major research and teaching center. In celebrating such pioneering achievements, the editor has chosen to focus on the modern period, matching more or less the museum's 100 years, with major new acquisitions by such artists as Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emil Nolde, Sigmar Polke, and Günter Umberg.
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