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An Artist’s Career from Empire to Third Reich

March 24, 2006
Symposium at the GHI, in cooperation with George Mason University and the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC

Conveners: Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University) and Kelly McCullough


Papers and Participants:

1. How Modern is Modern? Max Liebermann and the Discourses on Modernism
Françoise Forster-Hahn (University of California, Riverside)

2. Max Liebermann: The Artist as Cultural Politician
Peter Paret (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

3. German Art and American Sensibilities: Collecting German Art at the National Gallery of Art
Christopher With (National Gallery of Art)

4. Liebermann and Monet: The Conceptual Garden
Barbara Gaehtgens (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris)

5. Gender and Representation: Women in the Work of Max Liebermann
Margreet Nouwen (Max Liebermann-Archiv, Berlin)

6. The Making of a Catalogue Raisonée
Matthias Eberle (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee; Max Liebermann-Archiv, Berlin)

7. Reading between the Lines: Liebermann as Printmaker
Jay Clarke (The Art Institute of Chicago)

8. Prefatory Remarks on the Relationship of Liebermann to East European Artists
Steven Mansbach (University of Maryland)

9. Kriegzeit: German Artists and the Great War
Timothy Benson (Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

10. Sonderwege -- Historical and Art Historical: The Case of Max Liebermann
Marion Deshmukh (George Mason University)

This symposium enjoys the generous support of Deutsche Telekom



Additional funding has been provided by Volkswagen of America, Inc.