American artists in Munich
Subtitle: artistic migration and cultural exchange processes
By: edited by Christian Fuhrmeister, Hubertus Kohle and Veerle Thielemans
Contributors: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Forschungen zur Künstlerausbildung; Terra Foundation for American Art
Series: Münchener Universitätsschriften des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte -- vol. 8; Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München -- vol. 21; Münchener Universitätsschriften des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte -- Bd. 8.; Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München -- 21.
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783422068339
Subjects: Intellectual life; Artists; Congresses; Expatriate artists; History
Notes: "This volume presents the proceedings of a conference 'American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes, ' October 9-11, 2007, organized by the research group 'Forschungen zur Künstlerausbildung / Research on the Formation of Artists' in cooperation with the Terra Foundation for American Art and with the support of the Amerika Haus München e.V."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Christian Fuhrmeister and Veerle Thielemans; title: Voluntary exile and cosmopolitanism in the transatlantic arts community  -- Hollis Clayson; title: The Academy and Munich's fame as city of art  -- Frank Büttner; title: American artists at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich 1850-1920  -- Susanne Böller; title: The impact of the Art Academy at Düsseldorf on the evolution of American art  -- Ekkehard Mai; title: "A kind of Teutonic Florence" : cultural and professional aspirations of American artists in Munich  -- Ursula Frohne; title: Making art and money : art publishers and American artists in Munich  -- Helmut Hess; title: J. Frank Currier, Munich and the anxious state of American art ca. 1880  -- Eric Rosenberg; title: American women artists in Munich, or Die Frauen ohne Schatten  -- Diane Radycki; title: Munich's architecture and the modern American institution  -- Kathleen Curran; title: Wilhelm Leibl in Paris : international realism during the late Second Empire  -- André Dombrowski; title: The Bavarian beginnings of Eliza Greatorex : from New York to southern Germany, 1870-1872  -- Katherine Manthorne; title: Frank Duveneck, Carl Marr, and the other German-Americans in Munich, 1870-1885  -- Michael Quick; title: Marketing the European-American : William Merritt Chase, Munich, and the Märchenkönig  -- Nathan J. Timpano; title: "Unfinished business of democracy" : transcultural confrontations in the portraits of the German-American artist Winold Reiss  -- Frank Mehring; title: A German view of American history? Winold Reiss's mosaics at Cincinnati Union Terminal, 1931-33  -- Asta von Buch; title: The Munich sources behind Marcel Duchamp's Large glass  -- Herbert Molderings; title: American Gothic's Munich connection : a window into Grant Wood's regionalism -- Jane C. Milosch.