Symposium | Georges Hoentschel in Context
Although I noted back in February this BGC exhibition, Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts, I didn’t include any programming details. My apologies for the short notice; it’s an exciting slate of talks! -CH
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From the BGC:
Symposium: Georges Hoentschel in Context
Bard Graduate Center, New York, 18-19 April 2013
Panel from the shutters formerly in the Chapel at Versailles, carved by Jules Degoullons and associates after designs by Robert de Cotte, ca. 1710
Carved oak, originally painted and gilded
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 (07.225.145b)
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from April 4 through August 11, 2013, this international symposium brings together scholars and conservators to examine the Hoentschel collection in the context of the history of collecting in France and America. In April 1906, the celebrated Parisian decorator Georges Hoentschel (1855-1915) sold his French eighteenth-century panelling, seat furniture, painted overdoors, assorted objects, and medieval art to the powerful New York financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). Morgan, then president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented the eighteenth-century objects immediately to the Museum but initially only offered to lend the earlier artworks. These were later donated by his son Jack Morgan in 1916. Hoentschel was also involved in the contemporary art world of his day, designing an Art Nouveau pavilion for the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, as well as intriguing stoneware vessels. The Hoentschel material constitutes one of the most significant collections from the early period of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore its important role in disseminating the taste for eighteenth-century and Medieval French art in the United States.
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Flaminia Gennari-Santori (Consulting Curator, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida) — ’There Was Money in the Air’: John Pierpont Morgan and the European Collecting Tradition
Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The presentation will begin at 6:00 pm. RSVP is required. To reserve you place at Thursday’s evening session, please click on the registration link at the bottom of this page or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu. Please note that a separate RSVP is required for the all-day session on Friday, April 19, 2013. Also note that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited number of people, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the main room. Registrants who arrive late will be seated in an overflow viewing area.
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9:30-5:00
Thomas Stammers (Lecturer in the Cultural History of Modern Europe, University of Durham), “Reinventing the Old Regime: Collectors and Scavengers in Nineteenth-Century Paris”
Anne Forray-Carlier (Chief Curator, Department of 17th and 18th Centuries, Musée des Arts Décoratifs), “Émile Peyre: The Unknown Collector”
Evelyne Possémé (Chief Curator, Department of Art Nouveau, Art Déco, and Jewelry, Musée des Arts Décoratifs), “Hoentschel’s Pavilion for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Then and Now”
Charlotte Vignon (Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection), “French Style in Early Twentieth-Century America: The Roles of Art Dealers and Interior Decorators”
Vincent Bouvet (Head of the Publication Department, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris), “Hoentschel and his Contemporaries: Parisian Interior Design Firms (1880-1920)”
Christina Hagelskamp, Mecka Baumeister, Nancy Britton, Beth Edelstein, and Pascale Patris (Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), “The Conservator’s Perspective: Case Studies from the Furniture and Furnishings in the Hoentschel Collection”
Moderator of Morning Session, Deborah L. Krohn (Bard Graduate Center)
Moderator of Afternoon Session, Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Friday’s Afternoon Session will end with a panel discussion featuring the speakers and moderators.
RSVP is required. To reserve you place at Friday’s all-day session, please click on the registration link or contact academicevents@bgc.bard.edu. Please note that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited number of people, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the main room. Registrants who arrive late will be seated in an overflow viewing area.
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