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The Busch-Reisinger impresses
scholars and serious collectors
with its significant examples
of German Expressionism,
Austrian Secession art, 1920s
abstraction, and medieval
sculpture. Also noteworthy is
the variety of renowned post-
war and contemporary art from
the likes of Georg Baselitz,
Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter,
and Joseph Beuys.
Named after a famous
philanthropist, physician, and Skating (1877) by French Impres sionist
art collector, the Arthur M. painter Edouard Manet
Sackler Museum is home to
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s clay model Harvard’s amazing collection encounter the Lightbox Gallery.
of a kneeling angel (1674–75) of ancient, Asian, Islamic, and The new facility, which show-
later Indian art. cases the intersection of art and
The Fogg Art Museum also The Sackler holds the largest technology, gives visitors a view
houses rotating displays from collection of archaic Chinese into conservation labs. Another
its collection of 19th- and jades outside of China. Also on notable aspect of the new
20th-century African art. In display are Japanese surimono building is the Art Study Center,
addition special exhibitions (woodblock print) and works which provides stu dents,
are frequently held, often on paper, Chinese bronzes, faculty, and the public with
focusing on drawings and ceremonial weapons, Buddhist various oppor tunities to
graphic arts. cave-temple sculptures, and examine original works of art
The Busch-Reisinger Museum, ceramics from China and Korea. from the museums’ collections.
which was founded in 1903 as Notable works in various forms, A 300-seat lecture hall serves
the school’s Germanic Museum, such as vases, bronzes, and as a modern space in which
focuses on the country’s art coins from Greece, Rome, to hold various events, presen-
and design from after 1880, Egypt, and the Near East tations, and performances,
with an emphasis on German and be found in the ancient many of which are open
Expressionism. In fact, the Mediterranean and Byzantine to the public.
Busch-Reisinger is North collections. Also of note are The museum complex also
America’s only facility devoted works on paper (e.g. paintings, houses the Straus Center for
solely to the art of the German- drawings, calligraphy, and Conservation and Technical
speaking regions of central manuscript illustrations) from Studies – the first fine arts
and northern Europe. One of Islamic lands and India, conservation, research, and
the chief exhibits of the including important Islamic training facility established
museum is the Light-Space ceramics from the 8th through in America. The center’s glass
Modulator (1923-30) created 19th century. walls allow visitors to observe
by Hungarian painter and At the top level of the Harvard various conservation and
sculptor Moholy-Nagy. Harvard Art Museums complex, visitors research activities.
was a safe haven for many
Bauhaus artists, architects,
and design ers who fled Nazi
Germany, and both Walter
Gropius and Lyonel Feininger
chose the Busch-Reisinger as
the depos itory of their personal
papers and drawings.
Periodic exhibitions explore
aspects of the work and
philosophy of the Bauhaus
movement. Although it doesn’t
offer the largest collection,
this museum owns major
paintings and sculptures by
20th-century masters such
as Max Beckmann, Wassily
Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Paul
Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil
Nolde, and Franz Marc. Glass-roofed Calderwood Courtyard, the center stage of the museums

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