The mad square lectures
Two free lectures in association with the exhibition
Image: Herbert Bayer Theatre group on the Bauhaus roof c1920 (detail) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1985 © Herbert Bayer/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Wednesday 10 August 2011, 7.30pm
Friday 19 August 2011, 1.00pm
Free
Duration 1 hour
Location: Centenary Auditorium
Related exhibition: The mad square: modernity in German art 1910–37
Special lecture in German, in association with the Goethe Insitut
Prof Dr Uwe Fleckner, University of Hamburg
Der »primitive« Künstler: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und seine Rezeption afrikanischer Kunst (The ‘primitive’ artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s reception of African art)
Wednesday 10 August 2011 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Introducing ‘The mad square’
Dr Jacqueline Strecker, curator
Friday 19 August 2011 1pm – 2pm