Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Follow the Red Brick Road
Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Katja Zelljadt, Getty Research Institute; Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester
Industrial, Ecclesiastical, Monumental? The Use of Brick in 19th-Century Hungarian and Central European Architecture
József Sisa, Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Backstein oder Putzbau? The Architectural Physiognomy of Kommunale Berlin
Jennifer Reed Dillon, Duke University
Bernhard Hoetger’s Niedersachsenstein: Fantasies of National Rebirth and the Use of Brick in Monumental Sculpture after World War I
Arie Hartog, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen
Brick as Bauedelstein
Claudia Turtenwald, Universität Bielefeld
Mesopotamian, Hanseatic, or Modern? Arguing about Brick in Germany around 1900
Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester