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.

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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