Busch-Reisinger Museum
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| place | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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German-language art
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| opening | 1903 |
| management |
Thomas W. Lentz
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The Busch-Reisinger Museum, which opened in Cambridge near Boston in 1903, is the only museum in North America whose purpose is to study art from German-speaking countries. The museum merged the Fogg Art Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum as part of the Harvard Art Museum in the vicinity of Harvard University .
development
From 1921 to 1991, the museum was located in Adolphus Busch Hall , 29 Kirkland Street, named after the German-born founder of the Anheuser-Busch brewery , the former Germanic Museum of the university, which was not open to the public until 1921. This building complex now houses the Busch-Reisinger Foundation collection of medieval plaster casts and an exhibition on the history of the museum. In addition, concerts take place there on the house's world-famous Flentrop organ. In 1991 the museum moved to the newly built Werner Otto Hall , 32 Quincy Street, named after the founder of Otto-Versand , which was designed by the architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates.
In 2008 this house, which also houses the Fogg Art Museum, was closed for a more complex redesign, in which an extension designed by Renzo Piano is to be built, through which the three museums can then be accommodated in this building complex. During the renovation, selected works from the collections of Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Sackler Museum can be seen in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum , 485 Broadway.
collection
The museum owns works from the Vienna Secession , German Expressionism , abstract art from the 1920s, material with a Bauhaus reference. Other focuses include medieval sculptures and art from the 18th century. Noteworthy works from the post-war period come from Georg Baselitz , Anselm Kiefer , and Gerhard Richter . One of the most comprehensive collections of works by Joseph Beuys can also be found there .
Many of the museum's works are also available as images in the Harvard Art Museum's 250,000-work online catalog.
Web links
- Harvard Art Museum homepage
- Busch-Reisinger Museum, Freundeskreis Homepage
- Harvard Art Museum Collection Search Homepage
Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '30.4 " N , 71 ° 6' 52.4" W.