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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...
With such a decline from the initial enthusiasm for his project, curator Kuno Francke could never achieve his original aim of demonstrating the full development of German art from the Roman Empire to present times, as well as showing the relation of Scandinavian, Lowland, English, Swiss and American art to...
Things looked very 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...
Lodged in the upper floors of the museum building are the University's Speech and Germanic Language Departments, while the basement contains some of the WGBH studios along with surplus art objects. Among these latter, a number of nationalistic statue replicas given by Wilhelm II will share the fate of...
Plans for the expansion of the museum and eventual removal of tenants exist, if at all, far in the back of curator Kuhn's mind. Although the museum has never approached pre-World War I expectations, which also incloded stimulation of similar institutions throughout the country for cultures other than...