Vienna 1900 - the Birth of Viennese Modernism with Dr. George Scheper, PhD

George Scheper

Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: Vienna 1900 - the Birth of Viennese Modernism

Instructor: Dr. George Scheper, PhD

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March 25, 2025 - April 29, 2025 (6 Sessions) 

Tuesday,  6:00PM ET - 8:00PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom

 

 

Course Description: The Habsburg capital's transition from a world of aristocratic Catholic conservatism to avant-garde experimentation culminated in an explosion of creativity in art, literature, music, philosophy and science. We first survey the background of 18th century Baroque and 19th century bourgeois “Old Vienna,” and the comfortable bourgeois lifestyle of "the waltz city." We then turn to the distinctive innovations in art and architecture that take us from the middle-class successes of the Ringstrasse era, to the bolder work of the artists of the Viennese Secession -- Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann -- and conclude with the starker work of Expressionists Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, on the eve of WW I.

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ABOUT George L. Scheper, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

George L. Scheper (Ph.D., Princeton) is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and former Director of the Odyssey Program (lifelong learning and educational enrichment for adults) at Johns Hopkins University. His interdisciplinary humanities teaching focuses on Pre-Columbian and Native American Studies, and on urban cultural histories, especially of NYC and of turn-of-the-century culture circa 1900. He has directed fifteen National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes for college and university faculty on Pre-Columbian and Native American topics, convened onsite in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America. His publications include many articles and reviews on cultural studies; a survey of British Literature text for a tele-course by Maryland Public Broadcasting; a bio-critical study of Oxford don and detective fiction writer J. I. M. Stewart.

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Starts:
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
6:00pm EDT

Ends:
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
8:00pm EDT

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