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German
Expressionist Prints:
Barbara Mackey
Kaerwer’s Legacy
September 1–November 5, 2017
Barbara Mackey Kaerwer, art historian, lecturer, collector, and great friend of the Chazen Museum
of Art, was a loyal and generous alumna of UW–Madison. Works from her vast collection of German
Expressionist prints, and Austrian fine and decorative art of the Vienna Secession and Wiener
Werkstätte were shown in four exhibitions between 1972 and 2003. She gave nearly four hundred
pieces of fine and decorative art to the Chazen during her life and she contributed one thousand
books, exhibition catalogues, and other printed materials to the University’s Kohler Art Library.
Prints by Egon Schiele, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, and Käthe Kollwitz are among Mrs. Kaerwer’s gifts
to the Chazen and are featured in this exhibition.
Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
Certainty and
Doubt: Paintings
by Dan Ramirez
October 13, 2017–January 7, 2018
Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries
Adapting the language of minimalism with a late
twentieth-century experience, Dan Ramirez’s work is
both personal and multifaceted. In these recent works
along with pieces from his early print portfolio, the
artist delves into the spiritual, but also considers the
relationship between the act of making music and the
making of art. He plays with materials and perception
in a process that is deeply intellectual, creating work
that is precise and arresting. Originally from Chicago,
Ramirez is Professor Emeritus of Art at UW–Madison.
Dan Ramirez at work on the central panel of Aletheia in
the Chazen classroom studio. Photo Russell Panczenko