German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century

20 April–11 June 1978

This exhibition of 41 paintings and drawings from Central Europe is the first of its kind in Chicago, and the majority of the objects have never been displayed or reproduced before. The show includes paintings by the major Central European artists Johann Michael Rottmayr, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, and Anton Raphael Mengs. The subjects of the paintings include mythological, religious, historical, and genre scenes painted on canvas, wood, and copper.

Curator: Edward A. Maser, Director of the Smart Museum and Professor in the Departments of Art and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. 

The show was co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University, the Goethe Institute, German Cultural Center of Chicago, and the Austrian Institute, New York. Funding was provided in part by the Harold T. Martin Fund and the Woods Charitable Trust. 

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