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Lynette Roth
Daimler Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

lynette_roth@harvard.edu / 617-495-2325

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., University of Michigan

Lynette Roth oversees the Busch-Reisinger Museum and its collection. Her research focuses on art from German-speaking countries, with publications and/or exhibitions on the Weimar period (Cologne Progressives, Max Beckmann, August Sander), the immediate postwar period (Inventur–Art in Germany, 1943–55), and contemporary art (Rebecca Horn, Wolfgang Tillmans). Current projects include exhibitions on the photogram and issues of German art and identity after 1980.


Recent Publications

“Anneliese Hager, Cobra and the Camera-less Photograph.” In Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, ed. Kerry Greaves. London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

“The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn.” Flash Art (December 2019).

“Work in Progress.” In Rebecca Horn: Body Fantasies, ed. Sandra Reimann, 115–17. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2019.

“‘Scattered Outsiders’: The Cologne Progressives and Die Abstrakten.” In Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919–1939, ed. Eckhart J. Gillen, 330–33. Bielefeld: Kerber, 2018.

Inventur–Art in Germany, 1943–55. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

“Simultaneous Staging: Max Beckmann’s Triptychs as Stage Sets.” In Max Beckmann: The World as a Stage, 68–78. New York: Prestel, 2017.

Max Beckmann at the Saint Louis Art Museum: The Paintings. New York: Prestel, 2015.

“New Identities: Type and Portraiture.” In New Objectivity: Modern German Art, ed. Stephanie Baron and Sabine Eckmann, 258–69. New York: Prestel, 2015.

“‘First Problem’: Max Beckmann’s Saint Louis Still Lifes.” In Beckmann & America, ed. Jutta Schütt, 60–68. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz; Frankfurt am Main, 2011.

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