Curator Conversation: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz
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Curator Conversation: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz

Jul 11, 2024, 8:30 PM

A conversation between curators Starr Figura and Jay A. Clarke about two major females in the history of German Expressionism.

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Starr Figura, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art
Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago

Join us for a conversation by curators Starr Figura and Jay A. Clarke about two major females in the history of German Expressionism and the imprint they left on art history of the twentieth century and beyond.

Jay Clarke is the curator of "Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me" at the Art Institute of Chicago, opening on October 12, 2024. Starr Figura is the curator of "Käthe Kollwitz" at MoMA, which is now on view through July 20, 2024.

Banner image: Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait en face (detail), 1904, lithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints, and gift of Jack Shear, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Alice and Tom Tisch [in honor of Marlene Hess], Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Maud I. Welles, Ronnie Heyman [in honor of Marlene Hess], and Carol and Morton Rapp) and Neue Galerie New York (Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder)