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German drawings walk fine lines.
From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19980531
Author:Sherman, Mary
More than 100 German works on paper line the walls of two shows at Harvard University.
At both the Arthur M. Sackler and Busch-Reisinger museums, delicate line drawings, dating from the 1750s to the 1850s, give way to gestural pen and ink washes. There is a pluralism to the continuous stylistic ebb and flow that seems almost modern.
In these shows, however, the age slowly revealed in all its visual guises is the one marked by the turn-of-the-18th-century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The shows are "Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of ...
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