Tingel Tangel: A Portrait of Turbulent Times in Germany, 1910 – 37
Dr Petra Kayser, Curator, Prints & Drawings, NGV and Coordinating Curator for The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910 – 37
Lecture presented by the Friends of the Gallery Library
This lecture explores German culture during the period of the ‘Weimar Republic’, which saw an unprecedented number of groundbreaking innovations in modern art. In this age of dramatic social change and modernisation, artists experimented in painting, printmaking, photography, design, architecture, film and theatre, exploring a new kind of realism and inventing new visual languages to communicate their ideas.
Date: Sunday, 4 December 2011, 2.15pm for 2.30pm
Cost: Friends of the Gallery Library: Free, please give your name and specify that you are a FOTGL at the time of booking. Guest: $25 payment for any attendees that are not FOTGL members.
Includes refreshments on conclusion.
Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, (enter Waterwall entrance via St Kilda Road).
Bookings: 03 8662 1555, 10am – 5pm daily, Event code FOTGL 041211
Booking Form (word doc) Tingel Tangel Book Form
