Gabriel P. Weisberg

Professor

Office: 348 Heller Hall

Office Hours - Fall 2008

Tues: 12:45 - 1:45
Wed: 12:00 - 1:00

Phone: (612) 624-0323
Fax: (612) 626-8679

E-mail: weisb001@umn.edu
Web Page: http://gpweisberg.com/

Gabriel P. Weisberg (PhD. The Johns Hopkins University) teaches courses in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century European art with a specialization in the history of graphic art, design history and visual culture in France and Europe from 1780 –1920. He has recently taught an 8000 level Seminar on Design History and currently is teaching another 8000 level Seminar on “Literary and Artistic Crosscurrents in the 19 th Century.”

Weisberg has recently co-curated and co-edited “The Origins of L’Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire” an exhibition organized and book published jointly by The Van Gogh Museum, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) and distributed in the United States by Cornell University Press (2004). The exhibition, which opened in Amsterdam, and then moved onto museums in Munich, Barcelona and recently closed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, (May, 2006) was seen by over a million visitors. Weisberg is working on another exhibition with the Van Gogh Museum for 2010 on “Virtual Reality: Naturalist Salon Paintings in Europe and America”.

Other recent publications have included an essay on “The Urban Mirror” for “Paris and the Countryside, Modern Life in Late 19 th Century France” (Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine and Washington University Press, 2006) and a second essay on “Emile Friant dans un contexte international,” in Emile Friant, un nouveau regard for the Musée départemental Georges de la Tour, (2006). A major article on a newly discovered Japonisme ceramic service appeared in the September 2006 issue of Apollo Magazine ( London).

Among the PhD. dissertations by former students two have been recently published as books. Lisa Michaux’s dissertation has served as the basis for Herschel V. Jones, The Imprint of a Great Collector (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Elizabeth Menon’s second book, Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale ( University of Illinois Press, 2006) has just appeared. Elizabeth Fowler’s dissertation on the Rookwood ceramic designer Kitaro Shirayamadani will serve as the basis for a major exhibition and publication hosted by The Cincinnati Art Museum prior to a tour in Japan.

Professor Weisberg has been the recipient of major honors and awards in art history including having served as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and Regents Professor, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He serves as Reviews Editor for AHNCA’s on-line peer reviewed journal Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide; he was also a past President of the AHNCA group.

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