Thomas Beyer
Building Bridges, Moscow and Berlin—The Golden Twenties

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Series Title:  Graphic Modernism Lecture Series

South Court Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788 (directions)

For a few years at the beginning of the 1920s, Berlin became the cultural center of Russian artistic life. Russian writers, actors, and artists supplied Berlin’s newspapers, journals, and art exhibitions with an extraordinary array of creative output. Andrei Bely, Ilya Ehrenburg, Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksei Remizov, El Lissitzky, Vasily Masiutin, Ivan Puni, and others all brought their talents to the West. Who were they? Why did they assemble in Berlin? What were their contributions to the development of graphic modernism? What is their legacy today?

Related Exhibition:  Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935

Cost:  FREE

Program Information:
Celeste Bartos Education Center
These programs are free and open to the public, and are presented in the Library's South Court (enter from Astor Hall). Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Rooms will be opened 10 minutes prior to the class beginning. For questions, send an e-mail to SouthCourt@nypl.org or call (212) 930-9284.