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Faculty » Françoise Forster-Hahn
"Beginning"
Max Beckmann, 1946-1949
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Distinguished Professor
Office: 226 Arts Building
Phone: (951) 827-4601
E-mail: francoise.forster@ucr.edu
Ph.D., University of Bonn
Areas of specialization: History of Art, Eighteenth Century through Twentieth Century, German Studies, History of Photography, Museum Studies.
A former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Professor Forster-Hahn received both the UCR Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Art Association (CAA) Distinguished Teaching Award. She has published numerous articles and contributions to books and exhibition catalogues in the U.S. and abroad on issues of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and popular culture and the role of institutions and exhibition displays in the construction of national and cultural identity. She is the editor of Imagining Modern German Culture 1889-1910 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996) and the author of Max Beckman in Kalifornien: Exil, Erinnerung und Erneuerung (Munich and Berlin, 2007). She is currently preparing a book on Adolph Menzel (1815-1905): A Career Between National Empire and International Modernity.