Science to be portrayed through art
| Published: 08/18/2005 |
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MSOE's newly acquired art museum building, the former Federal Reserve Bank, won't be open for some time until renovations are complete. In the meantime, the university will continue to display portions of its nearly 600-piece art collection, Man at Work, comprising paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures depicting various forms of work
This fall's exhibition, opening for the citywide Gallery Night on Friday, Oct. 21, will be a show that features "The Fascinating Art of Science." This exhibition spans from 17th-century paintings that depict alchemy, such as Mattheus von Helmont's An Alchemist with Assistants in a Laboratory, which expresses the high regard for science that prevailed during the Baroque age, to works depicting today's industrial and biological chemistry. The show, culled from the Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection at Milwaukee School of Engineering, will be on display in MSOE's Walter Schroeder Library (500 E. Kilbourn Ave.) through Jan. 19, 2006. As an add-on, MSOE's Center for BioMolecular Modeling will lend a number of its unique molecular models for display. For more information, contact John Kopmeier, Man at Work director, (414) 277-7501 or kopmeier@msoe.edu.
Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection at Milwaukee School of Engineering is a collection of European and American paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures depicting various forms of work -- from manpower and horsepower to water, steam and electrical power -- is the world's most comprehensive collection of its kind and numbers nearly 600 pieces made between the 17th and 20th centuries. It was gifted to MSOE in 2000 from the collection of Dr. Eckhart Grohmann, a Milwaukee businessman, collector and MSOE Regent, as a teaching tool and as an object lesson in the integration of aesthetics into a curriculum that increasingly includes the humanities.