In 1994, Britta Erika Buhlmann took the helm at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, from which she will retire in the spring of 2022. In her twenty-eight-year tenure, she has enlarged the museum\u2019s art collection and put her personal stamp on it. The classical modernism division was strengthened with the addition of major works by Otto Dix, Hermann Scherrer, and Karl Buchheister, while key pieces by Fran\u00e7ois Morellet, Martin Willing, Werner Pokorny, and others have enriched the museum\u2019s holdings in sculpture. A newly established division of the collection is dedicated to the creations of American artists such as Eric Levin, Kiki Smith, Charles Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart. More than a few artists\u2014the list includes Carmen Herrera, Pierrette Bloch, Eva Jospin, and Nobuyuki Tanaka\u2014made their German or even European d\u00e9but at the mpk.<\/p>\n
In this book, members of the mpk\u2019s staff offer their takes on selected works in the collection, unfurling a subjective story of their engagement with works that have earned the museum its reputation as a \u201cplace of discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Best Part \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1994, Britta Erika Buhlmann took the helm at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, from which she will retire in the spring of 2022. In her twenty-eight-year tenure, she has enlarged the museum\u2019s art collection and put her personal stamp on it. The classical modernism division was strengthened with the addition of major works by Otto Dix, Hermann Scherrer, and Karl Buchheister, while key pieces by Fran\u00e7ois Morellet, Martin Willing, Werner Pokorny, and others have enriched the museum\u2019s holdings in sculpture. A newly established division of the collection is dedicated to the creations of American artists such as Eric Levin, Kiki Smith, Charles Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart. More than a few artists\u2014the list includes Carmen Herrera, Pierrette Bloch, Eva Jospin, and Nobuyuki Tanaka\u2014made their German or even European d\u00e9but at the mpk.<\/p>\n In this book, members of the mpk\u2019s staff offer their takes on selected works in the collection, unfurling a subjective story of their engagement with works that have earned the museum its reputation as a \u201cplace of discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15703,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2210,2212,2218,2213,2211,2217],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15700","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-film-and-video","8":"product_cat-installation-art","9":"product_cat-on-art","10":"product_cat-painting","11":"product_cat-photography","12":"product_cat-sculpture","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n