Symposium—Bauhaus 100: Object Lessons from a Historic Collection Talk: The Bauhaus in the United States—Response and moderated Q&A with Laura Muir, Research Curator, Division of Academic and Public Programs, Harvard Art Museums This symposium is presented in conjunction with the special exhibition “The Bauhaus and Harvard,” on view from February 8 to July 28, 2019. Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. A century later, we continue to learn from the rich trove of student exercises, iconic design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials in the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection. Join us as leading and emerging scholars share new research on these objects and related works in Harvard collections. Explore more about the Bauhaus centenary at https://www.bauhaus100.com/. Response and Moderated Q&A with Speakers: • “Ruth Asawa on Paper: The Two-Dimensional Work of a Sculptor” with Jordan Troeller, Ph.D., Harvard University. • “Josef Albers’s Brick Relief America for Harvard University” with Jeffrey Saletnik, Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History, Indiana University Bloomington. • “To Break the Wall: Herbert Bayer’s Harvard Murals, 1950” with Robert Wiesenberger, Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects, Clark Art Institute. Laura Muir is a research curator in the Division of Academic and Public Programs at the Harvard Art Museums; from 2001 to 2013, she was assistant curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. She specializes in European modern art and the history of photography. Her exhibition and publication “Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939” was the first devoted to the photographic work of former Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger. She curated the 2019 “The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibition. Support for this symposium is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.Support for the Bauhaus exhibition is provided by endowed funds, including the Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund, the Charles L. Kuhn Endowment Fund, and the Care of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection Fund. In addition, exhibition-related programming is made possible by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art. Friday, March 29, 2019, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums.