Kirchner and the Berlin Street: A Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2008
1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
The Museum of Modern Art
Theater 3, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research
Building, 4 West 54th Street

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's series of Berlin Street Scene paintings is widely
considered a highpoint in his career, as well as a milestone in the German
Expressionist movement. On the occasion of MoMA's exhibition "Kirchner and
the Berlin Street," international scholars in the field will present new
insights on this defining series in the history of early modernism.

Moderator:
Deborah Wye, MoMA Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books. Organizer
of the exhibition.

Participants:
Charles W. Haxthausen, Professor of Art History, Williams College
Reinhold Heller, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Chicago
Katharina Henkel, Curator, Kunsthalle Emden
Jill Lloyd, Independent scholar and curator
Sherwin Simmons, Professor of 20th Century Art and Design, University of
Oregon
Katharina Sykora, Professor of Art History and Media Studies, Braunschweig
University of Arts

Tickets (Dollar 10; members Dollar 8; students, seniors, and staff of other
museums Dollar 5) are available online
(<http://www.moma.org/calendar/ev_tickets.php?id=9747&tid=ED0000067&dept=EDU>),
or at the MoMA lobby information desk and Film desk.
For more information about the exhibition please go to
www.moma.org/kirchner