| Details | Dr. Elke Seibert, a scholar of modern European art and a renowned authority on Alberto Giacometti, brings her extensive knowledge to an in-depth exploration of the Swiss sculptor and painter’s work. The Hirshhorn holds more than 30 of his artworks, 11 of them now on view in Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960. In conversation with Hirshhorn curator Betsy Johnson, Seibert will contextualize Giacometti’s work within the broader revolutionary movements of the 20th century. This program is presented in partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elke Seibert is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Cultural Department of Canton Nidwalden, Switzerland, specializing in the interdisciplinary study of the reception of architecture and contemporary and fine art from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Previously, Dr. Seibert served as an independent curator in Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland and as a collection specialist and lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. She holds a PhD in European art history from the Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster, where she was awarded a dissertation fellowship. Her research interests focus on the classical modern period in Europe and the United States, particularly in a global context. She was selected as a postdoctoral research fellow at the German Center for the Art History Paris (2016–2018) and as Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art (2012–2013). Additionally, she held two short-term visitor appointments at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Dr. Seibert’s scholarly interests include prehistory as a modern idea, archaic art, and the genesis of contemporary art in Paris and New York from 1900 to 1960. Her research has been published in international journals, and she recently completed her book Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism: Abstract Art at MoMA 1937–1939 (London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2023). |
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