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Tuesday,
October 9
Short
Welcome
4.45 p.m.
Walter Grasskamp, research group
Greetings
Consul General Eric Nelson, U.S.
Consulate General Munich
Toni Schmid, Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research
and the Arts
Hans-Georg Küppers, City of Munich, Department of Arts and
Culture
Veerle Thielemans, Terra Foundation for American Art
Nikolaus Gerhart, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Klaus Benesch, Bavarian American Academy, Munich
Keynote
Lecture
6.15 p.m.
Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
"Voluntary Exile and Cosmopolitanism in the Transatlantic Arts Community,
1870-1914"
Reception at the Amerika Haus
Wednesday, October 10
Session
“Inspiration and Exchange – Models of Artistic Training”
Session Chair: Veerle Thielemans, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny
9.15 a.m.
Susanne Böller, Lenbachhaus, Munich
“American Students at the Munich Academy 1850-1920“
10.00 a.m.
Ursula Frohne, University of Cologne
”’A kind of Teutonic Florence.’ Cultural and Professional Aspirations of
American Artists in Munich”
:: Coffee break ::
11.15 a.m.
Kathleen Curran, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
“Why Munich (and Why Not Paris)? American Architecture and the Formation of
Modern Institutions”
12.00 noon
Ekkehard Mai, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
“The impact of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf on the Evolution of American
Art”
:: Light lunch ::
2.15 p.m.
Michael Quick, George Inness Catalogue Raisonné, Santa Monica, CA
“Frank Duveneck and the German-Americans in Munich”
3.00 p.m.
Eric Rosenberg, Tufts University, Medford, MA
“J. Frank Currier, Munich and the Anxious Status of American Art ca. 1880”
3.45 p.m.
Response: Christof Mauch, Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich
followed by a short final discussion of the session
:: Coffee break ::
Session
“Attraction, or: What could be found in Munich in the 19th century?” Part I
Session Chair: Hubertus Kohle, research group
4.30 p.m.
Helmut Heß, Richard-Stury-Stiftung, Munich
“Making Art and Money. Art Publishers and American Artists in Munich: A
Profitable Liaison”
5.15 p.m.
Graham C. Boettcher, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
“Nicola Marschall: An Alabama Artist in Munich”
Thursday,
October 11
Session
“Attraction, or: What could be found in Munich in the 19th century?” Part II
Session Chair: Hubertus Kohle – continued
9.15 a.m.
Nathan J. Timpano, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
“Der Märchenkönig & the American Imagination: Understanding the Medieval and
the Exotic in the Early Works of William Merritt Chase”
10.00 a.m.
Katherine Manthorne, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York
“Bavarian Beginnings of Eliza Greatorex: Munich - New York Dynamic in the
1870s”
10.45 a.m.
Response: Birgit Jooss, research group
followed by a short final discussion of the session
:: Coffee break ::
Session
“Beyond Attraction: Frictions in Appropriating or Exporting Munich”
Session Chair: Walter Grasskamp, research group
11.30 a.m.
André Dombrowski, Smith College, Northampton, MA
“Wilhelm Leibl in Paris: International Realism During the Late Second
Empire”
12.15 p.m.
Diane Radycki, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
„American Women Artists in Munich, or Die Frauen ohne Schatten“
:: Light lunch ::
2.30 p.m.
Herbert Molderings, Ruhr-University Bochum
“Art, Science and Technology - Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912”
:: Coffee break ::
3.45 p.m.
Frank Mehring, Free University Berlin
“’The Unfinished Business of Democracy’: Transcultural Confrontations in the
Portraits of the German-American Artist Winold Reiss”
4.30 p.m.
Asta von Buch, Technical University Berlin
“A German View of the American Wild West: A Mosaic by Winold Reiss in
Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1931-1933”
5.15. p.m.
Jane Milosch, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
“Grant Wood in Munich: Three Critical Months in 1928”
6.00 p.m.
Response: Christian Fuhrmeister, research group
followed by a short final discussion of the session
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