Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
Hello! ¡Hola! Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility as you improvise, create, and learn about various artists in the museum’s permanent collection. Communities Create LA! includes live engaging art workshops, providing the whole family with opportunities to experiment together through collage, drawing, and other cool non-traditional techniques. All workshops use materials easily found at home and are offered in both English and Spanish! To learn more about Education programs at LACMA, visit lacma.org/athome/learn. Creativity begins here!
Music: Somewood - Sample - moi...#3 (Spotify: https://cutt/agBr3rP)
Photo courtesy of Maria I. Ramos
Generous support for Community Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Edward A. and Ai O. Shay Family Foundation, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, the Goodwin Family Memorial Trust, and the Louis and Harold Price Foundation.
Hello! ¡Hola! Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility as you improvise, create, and learn about various artists in the museum’s permanent collection. Communities Create LA! includes live engaging art workshops, providing the whole family with opportunities to experiment together through collage, drawing, and other cool non-traditional techniques. All workshops use materials easily found at home and are offered in both English and Spanish! To learn more about Education programs at LACMA, visit lacma.org/athome/learn. Creativity begins here!
Music: Somewood - Sample - moi...#3 (Spotify: https://cutt/agBr3rP)
Photo courtesy of Maria I. Ramos
Generous support for Community Programs is provided by the Anna H. Bing Children’s Art Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Edward A. and Ai O. Shay Family Foundation, Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, the Goodwin Family Memorial Trust, and the Louis and Harold Price Foundation.






![Austrian Expressionism & Otto Kallir: Jane Kallir, Nathan Timpano, Timothy Benson, & Sabine Eckmann
Discover the bold spirit of Austrian Expressionism and the remarkable legacy of Otto Kallir, the visionary dealer who helped bring artists like Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to global attention. Join Jane Kallir, Nathan J. Timpano, and Timothy O. Benson for a lively illustrated talk introduced by LACMA curator Stephanie Barron and moderated by Sabine Eckmann. Together, they’ll explore how Kallir’s passion for art and innovation shaped the course of modern art.
Jane Kallir is an American art dealer, curator and author. She is co-director of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York, which specializes in Austrian and German Expressionism as well as self-taught and “outsider” art. In 2020, the gallery ceased commercial operations and became an art advisory. Its archives and library were transferred to the Kallir Research Institute, a foundation established in 2017. Kallir serves as President of the KRI. She has curated exhibitions for many American and international museums and is the author of the catalogue raisonné of Egon Schiele’s work in all mediums.
Nathan J. Timpano is Associate Professor & Head of Art History at the University of Miami (UM), where he focuses on modern art and visual culture in Europe and the Americas, with a specialty in German and Austrian expressionism. He is the author of Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet (Routledge, 2017), several book chapters and exhibition catalogues, and has additionally published essays in journals such as Art History, Oxford Art Journal, Journal of Art Historiography, and caa.reviews. Before joining the faculty at UM, he held professional positions at Harvard University’s Busch-Reisinger Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He presently serves as a faculty guest curator at the Lowe Art Museum at UM.
Sabine Eckmann is a German art historian based in St. Louis, her research interests are focused on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, with an emphasis on German and European art as well as art and politics, medium aesthetics, and critical theory. Her projects are regularly supported by such national and international organizations as the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She has curated numerous award-winning projects, including Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany (2007), for which she received the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation award for curatorial innovation. She co-edited and contributed to Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures (2009) and its predecessor, Exiles and Emigrés (1997). In 2015 she co-edited New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, which won the College Art Association Alfred Barr Jr. Award and the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for excellence. In addition, she has curated exhibitions about new media and video art ([Grid Matrix], Window|Interface, and In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations) as well as many monographic exhibitions (on Eleanor Antin, Christian Jankowski, Sharon Lockhart, Elizabeth Peyton, and Sam Durant among others). Her most recent exhibitions are Ai Weiwei: Bare Life (2019) and Katharina Grosse: Studio Paintings (2022). Eckmann has lectured widely including at Harvard Art Museums, New York University Graduate Center, University of Munich, Freie Universität Berlin, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the German Historical Museum and the Getty Research Institute.
This recording is presented as part of LACMA’s educational programming. Images of artworks are included solely for scholarly discussion and educational purposes Austrian Expressionism & Otto Kallir: Jane Kallir, Nathan Timpano, Timothy Benson, & Sabine Eckmann](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xZ58_wQJJuw/mqdefault.jpg)



