Month: January 2018

The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art – Exhibition Timeline and Artists 1929-1932

January 24, 2018
by Thomas
Exhibition History / Gallery / History / Posts Main / Research
Harvard Society, The School of Paris, The School of New York, Photography, Bauhaus 119-1923/1924

The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art – Exhibition Timeline and Artists 1929-1932    Many essays have been written about Lincoln Kirstein (1907 – 1996), John Walker III (1906 – 1995), and Edward M. M. Warburg (1908 – 1992) and their exhibition venue at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, on the second floor of the Harvard Cooperative Building, in Room 207 and 208. To know the exhibition timeline and the shown artists is important for each survey on […]

The artists of the Kurt Kirchbach and Thomas Walther Collection – Avant-Garde Photography in the 1920s & 1930s

January 3, 2018
by Thomas
Analytics / Collector / History / Research
Photomontage of the Wolkenbügel by El Lissitzky, 1925 (or 1923)

The artists of the Kurt Kirchbach Sammlung and Thomas Walther Collection (Blog post updated January 23, 2018)    This survey doesn’t examine exclusively individual works of some selected photo artists. It looks at the complete list of shown artists in many thousand exhibitions with the help of artist-info database and provides like this a new, so far impossible insight.    The idea for this survey was born when I read about Cornelius Gurlitt, the art historian (Nischwitz […]