International Symposium – Capturing Holbein: The Artist in Context (2022)

Hans Holbein the Younger, An Allegory of Passion, c.1532–1536, oil on oak panel, Getty collection 80.PB.72. Public domain, courtesy of J. Paul Getty Museum.

Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein (Department of History of Art, University of York) was an invited speaker at the symposium ‘Capturing Holbein: The Artist in Context’ organised by the Morgan Library & Museum in New York on Friday 6 May 2022. The symposium was held in conjunction with the Morgan’s exhibition Holbein: Capturing Character, co-organised with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. It was the first exhibition dedicated to the artist Hans Holbein the Younger in the US since 1982. Professor Nuechterlein’s paper focused on ‘The Contexts for Character in Holbein’s Narrative Prints’.

The Keynote speaker at the symposium was Professor Jochen Sander (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) and the other speakers were Dr Adam Eaker (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Dr Olenka Horbatsch (British Museum), Dr Austėja Mackelaitė (Morgan Library & Museum), Professor Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge), and Dr Anne T. Woollett (J. Paul Getty Museum). For details of the programme and papers, see the Morgan’s website.

The symposium was highlighted on ‘This Week in n New York’, and, as hoped for at the end of the article, the presentations can be viewed via the Morgan’s website. Professor Nuechterlein’s paper is in the video for Session Two, accessed via the icon on the top right of the video.

Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein speaking at the Capturing Holbein: The Artist in Context symposium at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 6 May 2022.