Artist Talk | Christiane Baumgartner in Conversation with Elizabeth Rudy

Christiane Baumgartner is best known for her monumental woodcuts based on her own film and video stills. Her work may be found in major public collections around the world including the Albertina, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, (Boston); Hammer Museum, and National Gallery Victoria, Australia. Christiane lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.

Elizabeth Rudy is the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, in the Division of European and American Art at Harvard Art Museums. Elizabeth is responsible for the museum’s print collection, which spans the Renaissance to the contemporary era. Her research focuses on prints of the 18th and 19th centuries, with particular interests in etching, book illustration, and works by the artist Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.