RVF Art Museum to Display First-ever Exhibit of Graphic Design
October 5, 2009 | Levent OZLER
For the first-time, the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum will host a history of graphic design exhibition that will include 75 works from Pan, a German multi-volume arts and literary Art Nouveau periodical, published between 1895 and 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe.
"PAN: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Avant-garde Europe, 1895-1900" will be on display at Cal State San Bernardinos RVF Art Museum Oct. 1, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010.
The exhibition will present a collection of brilliant graphic works by French, Dutch, Belgian, German, English, and Swedish artists such as Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Signac, George Seurat, Henri Van de Velde, Kthe Kollwitz, Flicien Rops, and Peter Behrens among many others. In addition, it will also include dazzling original prints by less known artists, such as Walter Leistikow, Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Volz, Otto Eckmann, Eugen Kirchner, and Albert Krger.
Pan, which played an important role in the development of Art Nouveau in Germany, published art by both well-known and unknown young artists. These pieces include plates, illustrations, color initials, vignettes and tail-pieces representing various processes of innovative modern image reproduction, including original lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and other original and near-original processes in both color and black & white.
The literary contributors to Pan include such figures as Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stphane Mallarm, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Paul Verlaine.
The exhibit, on loan from the Landau Traveling Exhibitions, will be enhanced through commentaries by the distinguished curator emeritus, Robert Flynn Johnson from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A cultural overview will be provided by the eminent curator and art critic, Peter Frank.
Established in 1996, CSUSBs Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum has accumulated a permanent collection of nearly 1,200 objects focusing on ceramics, ancient and contemporary art. More notably, the RVF is known as home to one of the best public displays of Egyptian antiquities on the west coast. The museums permanent collection spans some 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian history.
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