The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
ISBN 978-1-85759-479-9 hardcover; 978-1-85759-489-8 softcover
softcover or hardcover; 288 pages; 233 color and 24 b&w illus.; 9x12 in
$35 ($31.50 for Members), softcover; $65 ($58.50 for Members), hardcover
The Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in North America devoted to promoting the informed enjoyment and critical understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe of all periods, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries. The museum has especially important holdings of Austrian Secession art (Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Josef Hoffmann), German expressionism (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Vassily Kandinsky), 1920s abstraction (El Lissitzky), and material related to the Bauhaus (including archives of Lyonel Feininger and Walter Gropius). In addition to notable collections of late medieval, Renaissance, and baroque sculpture, 16th-century paintings, and 18th-century porcelain, the museum has recently focused on deepening its holdings of postwar and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe, including important works by Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and many others. The collection of unique and editioned works by the postwar artist Joseph Beuys is among the world's most comprehensive.
This elegantly designed volume, the only full-scale publication on the collection currently available, offers a stunning selection from the entire range of the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection, illustrated in a stimulating sequence of color plates. With two provocative and probing essays on the nature and potential of the museum by leading scholars in the field and a full chronological overview of its rich history, this book will appeal to historians of art, museum scholars, and all lovers of Central and Northern European art.
Peter Nisbet is the Daimler-Benz Curator of the Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum. Joseph Leo Koerner is professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard University.
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