Word: busches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proceeding under the assumption that it was necessary for Matisse "to extend his visual ideas in many directions to realize his full creative force" a University Course Exhibition has been arranged at Busch-Riesinger Museum containing many different objects of the late artist's work, including a chasuble designed for the Vence Chapel and illustrations of James Joyce's Ulysses...
From its foundations, whose thickness once led to suspicions that they were planned as German gun bases, to the crest of its tower, whose weather vane is an outstanding replica of medieval European metal-work, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture stands as a monument to one of the most checkered careers in Harvard archaeological history...
Back in turn-of-the century days, when the Germanic Museum was first planned, German-American relations were at a peak. Gifts from Kaiser Wilhelm II and other Germans were warmly received by Harvard officials. Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beer magnate and the museum's chief financial benefactor, could comfortably proclaim, at an elaborate 1912 cornerstone ceremony, the on vocation, "Forever live the good entente between Germany and the United States." Five years later, just as major work on the museum was completed, America entered World...
...dark for Germanic culture at Harvard in 1945, despite curator Kuhn's return from Navy service. Available resources could barely maintain the building for another year, and many of the collections were scattered throughout Fogg and other University buildings. Salvation was achieved only through some timely funds from the Busch family and their in-laws the Reisingers, as well as from the sale of books and lecture slides and rental of parts of the building to other University branches. In honor of their contributions, the museum was named in honor of the two families...
...small gallery at 37 Palmer St. remains open this month, but the Cambridge Art Association has its heart at the Busch-Reisinger Museum where four rooms have been set off for the Association's 11th Annual Spring Exhibition. On display are 63 paintings and 9 pieces of sculpture selected from entries by 90 Cambridge and Boston artists...