REVIEW INVENTUR — ART IN GERMANY, 1943-55 SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS GALLERY HARVARD ART MUSEUMS 32 QUINCY STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH JUNE 3 by James Foritano Our quintessential American humorist Samuel Clemens — better known under his pen name, Mark Twain — upon hearing that his obituary had appeared in a prominent newspaper, is reported to have announced from his own public podium: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” It was equally assumed that when the Second World War came to an end, of sorts, in the year 1945, with 55 million people killed, a goodly portion in infamous extermination camps, that the fragile bloom of German art had also died with them. The thesis of “Inventur — Art in Germany, 1943-55,” an exhibition currently at the Harvard Art Museums’ special exhibition rooms on the third floor, is that this assessment is also an … [Read more...] about INVENTUR AT HARVARD: TAKING STOCK OF GERMAN ART
