The Missing Archive: Bauhaus Artists and Designers and the Holocaust
The Visual Arts, Culture, and Media Speaker Series presents a public lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at SUNY Buffalo:
"The Missing Archive: Bauhaus Artists and Designers and the Holocaust"
Histories of Germany’s Bauhaus art and design school (1919–33) usually position it exclusively as a movement in exile once the National Socialists took power in 1933. In fact, the vast majority of its more than 1,400 members remained and embraced Nazism, survived it, or became its victims. In this talk, art historian Elizabeth Otto scrutinizes traces of the work and lives of Bauhaus members who, through their imprisonment and, sometimes, their deaths in the concentration-camp system, have largely been lost to the history of the Bauhaus movement. Using previously untapped archival sources—often scant materials preserved by family members and friends, including documents, photographs, and private memoirs—she reconstructs aspects of these artists’ work and lives and considers how to write the art histories that violence has taken from us.
Registration is not required for this event.
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Sponsors:
College of Liberal Arts
Visual Culture Program
School of Communication
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
School of Individualized Study
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