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...Busch-Reisinger Museum is holding an exhibition of work by 25th Reunioner Lewis W. Rubenstein '30, who painted murals in Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger entrance lobby, Curator Charles L. Kuhn announced yesterday. The exhibit will run through July...
...more modern policy replaced the old goals when present curator Charles E. Kuhn took over in 1932 and proceeded to remove a number of the permanently installed historical plaster casts in favor of original contemporary works and temporary twentieth century exhibitions. Today the museum's collection of modern German painting and Bauhaus architecture and design are considered the best of their kind outside Germany itself...
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 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...
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 the Germanic, the present management is well satisfied with its contributions towards students and visitors interested in German art as well as in the general enrichment of the Cambridge scene...
George M. A. Hanfmann and Charles L. Kuhn, both associate professors of Fine Arts, will present Fine Arts 130, "Ancient Art," and Fine Arts 195, "Art in Germany in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," respectively...