Katherine Kuenzli (2002) is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History. Her research focuses on European and American modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries has resulted in three books: The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin de Siècle(Routledge, 2010); Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism (Yale, 2019), which was awarded a publishing grant from the Furthermore Foundation; Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914, translated by Elizabeth Tucker (Getty Research Institute, 2022). A fourth book, A Towering Memorial: Race and Power in the Belgian Building, from the World’s Fair to Virginia Union University, co-authored with Kathleen James Chakraborty and Bryan Clark Green, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press. She is currently working on a book-length study of Anni Albers’s contributions to 20th-century art and design. In addition to these book-length studies, Kuenzli has published articles in The Art Bulletin, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Art History, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, as well as essays in edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. Her work has been supported by Fulbright, Chateaubriand, Dedalus, DAAD, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Getty Library, Canadian Center for Architecture, ACLS, and NEH grants.
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