Leading authority on Art Deco Metalwork to Speak on Edgar Brandt and Rose Iron Works.

September 21 & 22, 2012

Leading authority on Art Deco Metalwork to Speak on Edgar Brandt and Rose Iron Works.

Joan Kahr, art historian and leading authority on Edgar Brandt, will be the featured speaker of a Cleveland weekend seminar on Art Deco metalwork, September 21 and 22. The theme of the Friday/Saturday seminar, organized by the 20^th Century Society USA, is “Art Deco Metalwork: Edgar Brandt and Rose Iron Works.”

Kahr, Brandt’s biographer and also authority on Paul Fehér, Rose Iron Works’ designer during the early 1930’s, will present a slide lecture Friday evening at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Saturday, participants will tour private and public installations of Fehér / Rose Iron Works’ metalwork in the Greater Cleveland area, ending with a tour of the company showrooms, archives and forge shop. If you wish to participate, please contact Michael Beyer at 20thcs@gmail.com

Kahr, a graduate of Adelphi University, received her Master of Arts in European decorative arts from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design. She has lectured on French ironwork at the Bard Graduate Center, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband live on Long Island, NY.

Michael Beyer, president of the 20^th Century Society USA and a prominent member of the World Congress on Art Deco, was raised in Parma and is a specialist in family medicine with the Adena Health System in Washington Court House, OH.