 KARL SCHRAG AND THE LEGACY OF ATELIER 17: A LECTURE BY DOMENIC IACONO
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2:00 p.m. — Rm. 121 Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building Free and open to the public.
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| The SUArt Galleries presents Karl Schrag and the Legacy of Atelier 17, a lecture by Domenic Iacono, Director of the SUArt Galleries and Curator of Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions. The lecture will be presented on Sunday, October 7 at 2pm in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building at Syracuse University. The event is free and open to the public.Iacono will speak about the artists Karl Schrag, S.W. Hayter and other important printmakers who worked at the Atelier 17, an experimental workshop for the graphic arts, during its existence in New York City.
The printmaker S.W. Hayter moved his world renowned Atelier 17 to New York City in the early 1940s to escape Nazi persecution of avant garde artists who were working in Paris. Many other artists followed him to NYC where the Atelier became a gathering spot for European surrealist artists and progressive American artists. Karl Schrag began working there in the mid-40s and eventually became director of the Atelier after Hayter returned to Paris in 1950. Schrag became a well-known printmaker and had retrospective exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the National Collection of Fine Arts, and the Farnsworth Museum. The exhibition currently on display at SUArt Galleries, Karl Schrag: Memories and Premonitions, the first major examination of the artist’s work since his death in 1995, will be on display through October 21. |
Additional information and related programming is available by visiting the SUArt Galleries website at suart.syr.edu
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