Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jeﬀrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and
Culture, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
University. Lynette Roth, Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the
Busch Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Harvard Art Museums German artists of the 20th century, most
famously Brücke expressionists, consciously employed the medium
of wood in their practice, playing up its associations with the
medieval and “primitive” traditions. In conjunction with a
special display focusing on disparate objects made from the same
material, Hamburger and Roth will discuss the intersections
between medieval and modern art in wood, from a 15th-century
Madonna and Child to expressionist printmaking and sculpture.
This series considers objects from more than one point of view.
The informal talks, many of them by Harvard Art Museums
curators, conservators, and educators and Harvard University
faculty members, are designed to