German Expressionism Invite.indd - Frist Center for the Visual Arts

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Please join us for a
Thursday, October 18
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Remarks at 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium
Free; seating is first come, first seated
RSVP by October 8 to 615.744.3987
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event. Discounted parking is available in the Frist Center lots with
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This exhibition was organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is supported in part by:
from the Detroit Institute of Arts
Opening Weekend Program:
Friday, October 19
Curator’s Perspective:
“Detroit’s Masterpieces of German Expressionism”
Presented by: Salvador Salort-Pons, Ph.D., Head of
the European Art Department and The Elizabeth and
Allan Shelden Curator of European Painting,
Detroit Institute of Arts
6:30 p.m.
Frist Center Auditorium
Free; seating is first come, first seated
October 19, 2012–February 10, 2013
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts gratefully
acknowledges our Picasso Circle Members
as Exhibition Patrons:
Judy and Joe Barker
Cover: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Man with a Green Beard (detail), ca. 1920. Oil on canvas, 42 5/16 x
36 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. Bequest of Dr. William R. Valentiner, Detroit Institute of Arts, 63.134. © 2012
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Left: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Winter Landscape in Moonlight, 1919. Oil on canvas, 47 1/2 x 47 1/2
in. Gift of Curt Valentin in memory of the artist on the occasion of Dr. William R. Valentiner’s 60th
birthday, Detroit Institute of Arts, 40.58
Right: Ernst Barlach. The Avenger, 1914 (cast in 1930). Bronze, 17 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Gift of
Mrs. George Kamperman in memory of her husband Dr. George Kamperman, Detroit Institute
of Arts, 64.260
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Patricia C. Frist and
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Patricia and Rodes Hart
Richard and Judith Bracken
Marlene and Spencer Hays
Joanne and Tom Cato
Joey Jacobs
Laura and John Chadwick
R. Milton and Denice Johnson
Patricia Frist Elcan and
Dr. and Mrs. Howard S. Kirshner
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Jennifer and Billy Frist
Ben and Joan Rechter
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Delphine and Ken Roberts
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