The Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University Art Museums: A Legacy Reimagined

press release: Lynette Roth, since 2011 Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at the Harvard Art Museums, will lecture on “The Busch-Reisinger Museum @ Harvard University Art Museums: A Legacy Reimagined” on January 21, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in L140 Elvehjem Building/Chazen Museum.  Her visit is generously sponsored by a gift to the Department of Art History from the Rae Ryder Golden Fund. The museum specializes in art of German-speaking countries, and is the only museum of its kind in North America. Roth is behind its recent rehanging, and her lecture will address the possibilities and challenges afforded by this opportunity.

Roth received a PhD in the history of art from Johns Hopkins University in 2009 and a BA in interdisciplinary studies and German languages and literature from the University of Michigan in 1998. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Cologne (1999–2000), a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow (2004–5), and a Dedalus Foundation fellow (2005–6) who has produced distinguished and innovative work from the beginning.  Among many notable achievements, Roth curated a groundbreaking 2008 exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, in Cologne, Germany, titled Köln Progressiv 1920–33: Seiwert – Hoerle – Arntz, which focused on three core members of the artistic circle known as the Cologne Progressives and travelled to the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada, under the title Painting as a Weapon, in 2009. The accompanying catalogue, edited and authored by Roth, appeared in both English and German and has been hailed as a definitive book on the subject. As the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Modern Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Roth completed the stellar comprehensive scholarly catalogue of that museum’s extensive Max Beckmann paintings collection that appeared in 2014. She has also has taught at Johns Hopkins University and lectured and published widely in the United States and abroad on wide-ranging aspects of German art production.

Roth’s lecture is free and open to the public.