Françoise Forster-Hahn

Françoise Forster-Hahn is Distinguished Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside. She is the editor of Imagining Modern German Culture, 1889–1910 (1996) and the author of Max beckmann em="" erinnerung="" in="" kalifornien:="" und="">(2007). Her publications include numerous essays and contributions to books and exhibition catalogues on issues of nineteenth and twentieth century art and the role of institutions and exhibition displays in the formation of national and cultural identity. She is currently preparing a publication on the role of Berlin’s Jahrhundertausstellung (1906) and Julius Meier-Graefe’s Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst (1904) in the construction of the history of modern art.