Academic Sessions: London 1997
Patronage in German Art 1870-1945
Conveners:
Shulamith Behr (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Joan Weinstein (The Getty Grant Program)
From the reign of Wilhelm I through the years of the Third Reich, the historical discontinuities of German history highlight the problems of adopting generalised models of social and cultural development. Papers are invited that address the narratives of patronage operative in the art world during this period, particularly as they relate to the search for 'national' identity.
Topics will include the interplay between public and private patronage and collecting; the role of marginal groups, including women, in promoting artistic practice; and the discursive formation of the modern patron in the press.
Shulamith Behr (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Joan Weinstein (The Getty Grant Program)
From the reign of Wilhelm I through the years of the Third Reich, the historical discontinuities of German history highlight the problems of adopting generalised models of social and cultural development. Papers are invited that address the narratives of patronage operative in the art world during this period, particularly as they relate to the search for 'national' identity.
Topics will include the interplay between public and private patronage and collecting; the role of marginal groups, including women, in promoting artistic practice; and the discursive formation of the modern patron in the press.
- Margaret E. Menninger (Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University): Public Patronage with Private Funds: Leipzig's Grassi-Museum, 1880-1900
- Helen Shiner (University of Central England): A Temple to the Lebensreform Movement? Karl Ernst Osthaus and the Gropius-Meyer Model Factory 1914
- Nicola Lambourne (Courtauld Institute):Patronage and Pillage: The World War One Bergungsmuseen
- Sherwin Simmons (University of Oregon):Expressionism in the Discourse of Fashion
- Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (Tübingen):The Discursive Structures of Images of Frauenmord
- Malcolm Gee (University of Northumbria):The 'Art Business' in Berlin c.1916-1924
- Brenda Danilowitz (The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut): Josef Albers and Patrons 1916-1928: In- and Outside the Bauhaus
- Marsha Meskimmon (Staffordshire University):The Third Sex? Politics and Patronage of Lesbian Imagery in the Weimar Republic
- Ann Stieglitz (University of Tübingen): Tobacco Road: a Tale of 'High' and 'Low' in Germany, 1927-1947
- Ines Schlenker (Courtauld Institute): Transformations in Patronage: the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellungen 1937-1944
- Peter Vergo (University of Essex):
- 'Monuments to Horror'. Memorializing the Concentration Camps: the Function and Significance of the Memorial Site at Dachau.
- Plenary discussion chaired by Joan Weinstein