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Ebb’s From Berlin to Broadway Will Be Exhibited at Morgan Library

Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Nightclub in New York, 1947
Photography by Joseph Zehavi, 2006
(© 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), 
New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)
Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Nightclub in New York, 1947
Photography by Joseph Zehavi, 2006
(© 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn)

From Berlin to Broadway, an exhibition consisting of 43 early 20th-century German and Austrian drawings owned by the late lyricist Fred Ebb, will be on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, April 20-September 2.

The drawings and watercolors, which date from 1910-1925, include the works of such noted artists as Max Beckmann, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Oscar Kokoschka, and Ernst Ludwig Kirschner. Their subjects include musicians and nightclub performers, as well as portraits and self-portraits.

Ebb began amassing the collection, little of which has ever been seen in public, in the late 1960s, following the success of Cabaret, the German-set musical he co-wrote with John Kander. “As a group, they offer new insights into a movement that had tremendous influence on modern art,” says Charles E. Pierce, Jr., director of the Morgan Library Museum.

For more information, call 212-685-0008 or visit www.themorgan.org.