Art and Cultural History

From Façade to Psyche: Portraiture in the Vienna of Freud, Klimt, Schiele, and Schönberg
The Way to Goethe’s Weimar: Of Plum Trees, Painters, Pianists, and Pamphleteers
Who Ever Heard of a Woman Sculptor? Harriet Hosmer, Elisabet Ney, and the 19th-Century Dialogue with the Three- Dimensional
From Apparatus to Apparition: Transformations in the Modern Narrative
Winckelmann versus Marinetti: Revering and Reviling Italy’s Classical Past
Schopenhauer and Art: From Elisabet Ney to Isadora Duncan
The Emperor’s New Old Clothes: Appearance and Reality in Franz Josef’s Vienna
Strindberg’s Uneasy Universe: From Son of a Servant to Father of Indra
The Nordic Impact on Modern Art: Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Strindberg, Munch, and Ingmar Bergman
Mysterious Yearnings, Eternal Longings: The Swiss Impact on Austrian Art from Fuseli and Segantini to Hodler and Vallotton
Art Nouveau to Expressionism, Ballet-Style
Nationalistic Aftermaths of the Paris Exposition Universelle 1900
Picasso’s Barcelona: Collision of Two Generations at the Bohemian Café Els Quatre Gats
Of Mixed Marriages, Cancelled Careers, and Anti-Semitism in the Vienna of Alma and Gustav Mahler
The Two Gustavs: Klimt, Mahler, and Vienna’s Golden Decade, 1897-1907
Toys in Freud’s Attic: Torment and Taboo in the Child and Adolescent Themes of Vienna’s Image-Makers
Käthe Kollwitz in Context: Berlin and the Formative Years
Gender or Genius? Kollwitz and Munch; Becker and Modersohn; Münter and Kandinsky
Spirituality and the Arts Before and After 11 September 2001