Concert at Fogg Museum with Vosgerchian, Calabi To Include Works by German Romantic Composers

In celebration of two special exhibitions, Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe and Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Marcella Calabi, soprano, and Luise Vosgerchian, piano, will present works by German romantic composers æ Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann æ at the Fogg Art Museum on Sunday, April 26, at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the concert will be sold at the door only. Admission is $7; $5 Harvard students and staff and senior citizens; $4 Friends and children under 12. The doors will open one-half hour before the concert begins and the exhibitions will be open for viewing. Complimentary parking will be available at the Broadway Garage, on the corner of Felton Street and Broadway. For further information, please call 495-4544.

Luise Vosgerchian is the Walter M. Naumburg Professor of Music Emeritus. She will play Schumann's Humoresque for piano solo, Opus 20 in B-flat. Marcella Calabi, a former student of Vosgerchian, is based in New York, where she performs a diverse repertoire of opera, oratorio, chamber music, early music, and contemporary music. Calabi and Vosgerchian together will perform songs by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann. Not only are these composers from the same era as the works on display in the exhibitions æ the Age of Goethe æ but the songs chosen for the concert are mostly settings of texts by Goethe and by major poets who followed him in the 19th century.

Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe is on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum through June 7. Organized by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fuseli to Menzel consists of 80 German drawings from the years 1750-1850. The works have been selected from one of the world's premier private collections of drawings from this period, assembled by the Munich lawyer Alfred Winterstein (1898-1976). Exceedingly rare in the private and public collections of the United States, these drawings and watercolors afford the viewer an opportunity to study major works from one of the greatest periods of German art. The exhibition curator and author of the accompanying catalogue is Hinrich Sieveking, curator of the Winterstein Collection. The organizers of the exhibition at the University Art Museums are William W. Robinson, curator of drawings, and Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator, Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums is on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum through June 28. Organized to coincide with the loan exhibition Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe, this exhibition presents 43 drawings from German-speaking Central Europe, dating between 1770 to 1880, from the permanent collection of the Art Museums.

While modest by the standards of German museums or private collections like the one from which Fuseli to Menzel has been selected, Harvard's holdings of drawings from this period rank among the most comprehensive in North America. The works in the exhibition illustrate the major stylistic changes in German art from the neoclassicism of the later 18th century to the Romantic revolution and early realism of the 19th, and they include drawings by some of principal exponents of these trends, such as Anton Raphael Mengs, Henry Fuseli, Joseph Anton Koch, Franz Horny, and Adolph Menzel. In addition to complementing Fuseli to Menzel, the exhibition celebrates a century of collecting Central European drawings at Harvard. Classicism-Romanticism-Realism is organized by William W. Robinson, curator of drawings.