Professor
Contact information:
Phone: 608-263-2346
E-mail: bbuenger@wisc.edu
Office hours:
Tuesdays 11:00-12:30 and Thursdays 1:00-2:30
B.A. Vassar College, 1970
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1979.
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research and Teaching:
20th-century European, 19th- & 20th-century German, and modern women artists; modern Italian art; modern European artists and design.
On faculty since 1976.
Courses taught:
- 202 Renaissance to Modern Art
- 236 Bascom Colloquium in Art History: "What Makes Art Contemporary?"
- 351 20th Century Art in Europe
- 352 German Art of the 19th Century
- 353 20th Century Women Artists in Europe and America
- 408 Topics in 20th C. Art History: "Modern Italian Art 1850-2003"
- 452 Art in Europe, 1880-1914
- 453 Art in Europe, 1915-1955
- 454 Art in Germany, 1900-1945
- 556 Proseminar in 20th Century European Art (Topics: "Design & Society"; "Artistic Nationalism in the Age of the International"; "Apocalyse")
- 856 Graduate Seminar in 20th C. European Art (Topics:
"Hard Art"; "Art Design & Society"; "Nationalism
in the Era of the International")
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Max Beckmann. Self Portrait in Words. Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, editor and translator. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997. |
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"Max Beckmann's 'Der Künstler im Staat' (1927) in Überbrückt: Ästhetische Moderne und Nationalsozialismus. Künsthistoriker und Künstler 1925-1937, ed. Eugen Blume and Dieter Scholz, Cologne: Walther König, 1999. |
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"Deconstructing Identity: Eva-Marie Schön's Origin of the Species" in Other Germanies: Questioning Identity in Women's Literature and Art, ed. Karen Jankowsky and Carla Love, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. |
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"Wallenstein in Red" in Max Beckmann, ed. Sean Rainbird, London & New York, Tate Modern and Museum of Modern Art, 2003. |
| "From Frankfurt to Europe: Some Weimar Era Portraits," forthcoming in Of Truths Impossible to Put in Words: Max Beckmann Contextualized, ed. Rose-Carol Washton Long and Maria Makela, Munich: Peter Lang, 2007 | |