exhibitions
German Expressionist Prints:
Barbara Mackey Kaerwer’s Legacy
September 1–November 5, 2017
Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries
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.
Emil Orlik (Czech, active in Germany, 1870–1932), The Painter and Printmaker
Bernhard Pankok (Der Maler und Graphiker Bernhard Pankok), 1903, color
woodcut, 5 7 ⁄ 8 x 5 7 ⁄ 16 in., gift of Barbara Mackey Kaerwer, 2012.22.65