The course will examine the chief art and architectural movements, figures, centers, exhibitions, and journals of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in the first half of the century in their social, political, historical, and cultural contexts: turn-of-the-century Impressionism, Realism, Symbolism and Jugendstil; the Secessionist movements; artists' colonies; Expressionism and its enemies; artists in World War I; Dada; postwar revolutionary artists' groups; art in the Weimar Republic; the Bauhaus; postwar architecture; postwar Realism and Verism; the Neue Sachlichkeit; postwar abstraction; international interactions; photography; film; actions against the "degenerate artists"; art in the Third Reich; artists in occupied countries and in exile. The presentations will attempt to combine lecture and discussion. Artists considered include: Arp, Barlach, Baumeister, Beckmann, Breker, Campendonk, Corinth, Dix, Ernst, Feininger, Felixmüller, Gropius, Grosz, Hausmann, Heartfield, Heckel, Höch, Hodler, Hofer, Itten, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Klee, Klimt, Klinger, Kokoschka, Kollwitz, Lehmbruck, Liebermann, Marc, May, Mies van der Rohe, Modersohn-Becker, Moser, Münter, Nay, Nolde, Nussbaum, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schiele, Schlemmer, Schlichter, Schwitters, Slevogt, Speer, Täuber-Arp, Taut, Van de Velde, Vogeler, and Ziegler. Given my personal involvement with new exhibitions of Beckmann and Vienna design, we will give special attention to those subjects.

Requirements:

The course is writing-intensive and requires one mid-term examination, two short papers (2 pages each) in preparation for a final term paper (10-15 pages) on a topic of the student's choice, and a final examination. Regular reading assignments. The 4th credit session requires fifteen hours of additional contact with regular readings and student presentations on works in the Elvehjem Museum. Graduate students should confer with me about topics related to their research interests.