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Symposium—Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe, Part 1

Professor Anna Jozefacka and Assistant Curator Luise Mahler examine how Cubism impacted and integrated into Central and Eastern European culture.
Anna Anna Jozefacka
and
Luise Mahler
24 min. watch

Welcome:

Rebecca Rabinow, Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, MMA

Introduction:

Anna Jozefacka, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York

Luise Mahler, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Credits:

Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe is presented in collaboration with and supported in part by the Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture (HGCEA).

Organized by the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

Contributors

Anna Anna Jozefacka
Independent Scholar
Luise Mahler
Assistant Curator at The Museum of Modern Art

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Art Mentioned

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Woman in a Chemise in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso Spanish, Oil on canvas
Woman in a Chemise in an Armchair
Pablo Picasso
Paris, late 1913–early 1914
Bottle of Rum, Georges Braque French, Oil on canvas
Bottle of Rum
Georges Braque
Paris, spring 1914
The Fruit Dish, Pablo Picasso Spanish, Oil on canvas
The Fruit Dish
Pablo Picasso
Céret, spring 1912
The Absinthe Glass, Pablo Picasso Spanish, Painted bronze and perforated tin absinthe spoon
The Absinthe Glass
Pablo Picasso
Wax original: Paris, spring 1914; Bronze cast: Foundry Florentin Godard, Paris, made to order for Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler by April 16, 1914