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...accumulated an impressive collection of artwork, especially in Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction and Bauhaus art. Comprehensive collections of work by Joseph Beuys, Lyonel Feninger and Walter Gropius are among the finest in the world. Although it also maintains collections of classical Renaissance and Baroque work, the Busch-Reisinger has recently focused on obtaining more post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe...
...serve the works of art.... We as a group do not intend to push the museum in any one direction. For us it is to support the museum as loyal friends,” says Professor Michael Hoffmann-Becking, president of the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger, an international group based in Germany...
Nowadays the Busch-Reisinger Museum serves as a “tableau vivant for the mutual exchange of ideas…nowhere in the country is there another place to study consecutively German art,” said Joseph L. Koerner, professor of history of art at the University College in London. It is unique as “a teaching museum that allows American students to learn and understand the art and culture of the countries of Central Europe,” says Becking...
...idea to produce an exhibition to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum began with the acquisition of an artistic...
...painting, a gift to the Busch-Reisinger in honor of its 100th birthday, captures the essence of an oft-missed period that preceded German Expressionism and threatened the stability of academic art, generating a rich array of conflicting styles...