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University Calendar March 1981 Art Museum Gallery Programs Theater Programs/ Pacific Film Archive Berkeley Museum News Gallery Programs /Collections Bransten Bequest: a Cultural Legacy Joseph M. Bransten, patron of the arts, and friend of the University civic leader, Righi : Art Museum, died last April at the age of Alexei Jawlensky, Landscape, 1908, oil on board, 21- 79, leaving to this museum, as well as to 118" x 15-118". Collection of University Art Museum, other Bay Area museums, a cultural Berkeley . Bequest of 3oseph M. Bran sten legacy of art to be enjoyed by generations Below: Amadeo Modigliani, Caryatid, n.d ., pencil and to come. watercolor on paper. 21" X 16-112". Collection of Bransten's bequest to the University University Art Must:um, Berkeley . Bequest of Joseph Art Museum is varied and distinguished. M. Bransten . figure sketch by the Blow Right : Beginning with a Joan Mird, Croup of Personages, 1939. watercolor and nineteenth-century French Impressionist ink on paper, 15-3/4' X 12-314" . Collection of Camille Pissaro, the gift extends University Art Museum, Berkeley . Bequest of Joseph chronologically to the contemporary M. Bransten . period with three works by Bay Area artists, a painting and a relief sculpture by Roy de Forest, and a watercolor-collage by Fred Martin. The core of Bransten's bequest, however, consists of four works by early twentieth-century masters: a beautiful landscape by Alexej Jawlensky painted in 1908, during the artist's Fauve period; a wonderfully imaginative watercolor, Group ofPersonages, by the Surrealist Joan Miro; a fine lithograph of a dancer by Henri Matisse; and a truly magnificent caryatid drawing by Amadeo Modigliani . With these pictures, the Museum's collection of modern art has been substantially augmented with works of outstanding quality. Several o¬ Bransten's works have already been installed- the Pissaro is on display in Gallery 3, and the lawlensky, Miro, and Modigliani can be seen in Gallery 4. Born in 1900 in San Francisco, Bransten attended UC Berkeley from 1917 to 1919 before transferring to Harvard University, where he graduated in the class of 1921 . A member of a pioneering family that settled in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era and founded the MJB Coffee Company in 1881, he joined MJB after his graduation and eventually headed the company for 30 years. (Continued on page l 1) Theater Programs 1 P FA Feature Enno Patalas Presents Restored Treasures of the German Expressionist Cinema Since the City Museum of Munich headphone facilities, the cinema also has a opened its film department eight years three-bladed shutter in its projector which Patalas. A produces a flickeriess silent film image. ago, its director has been Enno Fritx Lang's Spies (March 4) well-known film critic and historian, he The collection not only focuses on the founded the magazine Filmkrilik in 1957, city's history, which is richly documented, and has written extensively for Der Zed, but also provides the main base for New the Museum's and German cinema, this goal has been Spiegel, and for Suddeuischen Zeitung. German Cinema. Almost all the work by One major goal in The Munich Film Museum is both an directors like Fassbinder, Wenders, archival activity is to gather a almoRj":.:Lily realized. Herzog, von Praunheim and Costard are representative selection of each key . The Museum has concentrated on archive and a cinema, screening 350 films film since it became each year. The decor of the auditorium is stored there in mint condition. From an tendency in film since Lumiere and "classical" German period, the Museum has collected Meiies. Ideally, the search is directed apparent that many of the best-known black, like the original New York earlier period were being screened Anthology Film Archives' cinema, created almost the complete work of Karl towards finding the prints which are works of the Valentin, the Munich-based comic whom closest in length, format, and language to by Peter Kubelka and Jonas Mekas. Feature continues on page 10) Complete with stereo sound and Brecht regarded as his mentor. the original. In some areas, like Soviet (PFA University Art Museum BerkeleyfMarch 81 Gallery Programs /Exhibitions Zucker Show Extended At San Francisco's Experimental his hands and molding the malleable pulp Printmaking studio, founded by artist onto the surface of the paper supports . Garner Tullis, you won't find such The result is a series of vibrantly colored . traditional approaches to printmaking as variations on a design of a candle with etching, lithography, and woodcut. wax dripping down its side. Instead, artists like Joseph Zucker, whose Other artists might cast the pulp into prints, Candles, are currently on view id molds, or emboss it, developing through the MATRIX Gallery, blend their own experimentation the process most styles with unorthodox techniques for appropriate to their concept. working with, or, more accurately, in, The workshop keeps a low profile, but paper. has gained a reputation for excellence Paper pulp, ground from fibrous among such well-known artists as Zucker, substances, is the basic material for all the Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sam Francis, and prints made at EP. Before Zucker's Louise Nevelson, who are among the arrival, Ann Tullis, the director of the many who have produced paper works workshop, prepared buckets of liquid pulp there, colored with fabric dyes, along with sheets The exhibition of the Zucker series, of heavy handmade paper . published by Pace Editions, Inc., New Zucker made each of his prints York, will be extended through March 19, individually by dipping into the tubs with 1981 .0 Robert Gore Rifkind: "Wild Passion at Midnight" In the past ten years Robert Gore Rifkind, Beverly Hills lawyer, has become Faro con segnale mobile inferno sulfa base porruale, demo 'la Febbre de! Mare' (Lighthouse with a Mobile Signal for a a major collector and Port. Sea Fever), 1977. Project by Arnaldo Pomodoro, drawing by Dialmo Ferrari. This, and other models for champion of large-scale sculptural works by the renowned Italian sculptor, Arnaldo Pomodoro, will be on view in the German Expressionism. The Human MATRIX Gallery from April l to May 17 . The lighthouse, to be 160 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter, was Image In German Expressionist Graphic designed for a breakwater planned, but clever built, Tar the Gulf of Taranto. Art From The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation is the eighth exhibition to be drawn primarily from his collection ; it will be on view through March 22 . The following excerpt is taken from Rifkind's German Expressionist article, "Wild Passion at Midnight: German Expressionist Art," which appeared in the Summer 1980 Art Journal.' Films and Lecture German Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism are the three great art movements of the first half of the Alessandra Comini will lecture on Sunday, March 1, 7:00 p.m., Nosyeratu twentieth century. Of them, German "Oskar Kokoschka: Surviving the Storm" (1922) arid, at 8:50 p.m., Faust (1926), Expressionism is by far the least written on March 12 at 9:00 p.m. Her talk is both directed by F. W. Murnau. about, exhibited, and reproduced . There scheduled in conjunction with the current Monday, March 2, 9:00 p.m., Siegfried are many reasons for this, not the least of exhibition The Human Image In German (1922-24), directed by Fritz Lang. which is the calflike adulation bestowed Expressionist Graphic Art From The Introduction by Enno Patalas. upon even third-rate examples of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m., Spies School of Paris. Or. Comini, who earned her Master's (1928), directed by Fritz Lang. For fifty years we have been assaulted degree in Art History from UC Berkeley, Introduction by Enno Patalas. by exhibitions, books, and magazine is currently Professor of Art History at Saturday, March 7, 7:00 p.m., Pandora's articles on French art, to the point where Southern Methodist University . She is Box (1928), directed by G.W. Pabst; at even the most minor artists are accorded author of Egon Schiele's Portraits, Gustav 9:40 p.m ., The Wildcat (1921), directed by high visibility. Compounding the Klimt, and, most recently, Fantastic Art of Ernst Lubitsch . Introduction by Enno predominance of French art are the Vienna . Patalas. premature deaths of so many major Also in conjunction with The Human Sunday, March 8, 7 :30 p.m., The Expressionists and the Nazis' brutal Image, the Pacific Film Archive will Cabinet oj'Dr, Caligari (1919), directed by repression in the 1930s of all the Robert Gore Rifkind present the following films in the Museum Robert Wiene; at 9:00 p.m ., From Morning Expressionists ; consequently, German Theater: to Midnight (1920), directed by Karl Heinz Expressionist artists are relatively Martin. unknown outside of Germany, Austria, Monday, March 9, 9:30 p.m., Mother and Switzerland. Thus, the American art Krausen's Journey to Happiness (1929), world is still enormously ignor:mt about directed by Piel Iutzi. 0 German Expressionist art. It is interesting to conjecture about what our view of that era would be if 1_eger, Braque, and Gris German Expressionism is also being instead of Marc, Macke. and Morgner had explored this month in the San Francisco been killed in the First World War; if Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, Derain, not Schiele, had died in the Expressionism: A German Intuition influenza epidemic of 1918; if Lipchitz, 1905-1920, on view through April 26. not Lehmbruck, had killed himself in the late 1920s; if Picasso, not Kirchner, had committed suicide at the age of fifty-eight; University Art Museum Calendar and if in the 1930s the French government had declared all the contemporary major French artists Volume 1[I Number 8 Published by: degenerate, confiscated their works from University Art Museum museums, disparaged them publicly, 2626 Bancroft Way destroyed tens of thousands of their major Berkeley, CA 94720 works, and forbidden them to work from (415) 642-1207 the mid-1930s until after the Second World War.