Panorama Symposium Schedule 

    Saturday - November 1, 2008

    Time Event
    9 am Welcome
    Morning Session The World of Panorama Painting: An Overview Past to Present
    9:15 am – 10 am Gabriele Koller - The European Origins of Milwaukee Panorama Painting
    Panorama Scholar and Researcher, Bonn, Germany
    10 am -10:45 am Yadegar Asisi - Modern Panorama Installations: Examples in Dresden and Leipzig
    Professor of Architecture, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany and art director of Asisi Factory
    10:45 am – 11 am Break
    11 am – 11:45 am Thomas Lidtke - Panorama Painting in Milwaukee
    Executive Director of Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
    11:45 am – 12:30 pm Sue Boardman - The Gettysburg Cyclorama – A New Life for A Grand Old Gal
    Leadership Program Coordinator, Gettysburg Foundation, Adams County, Pennsylvania
    12:30 pm – 2 pm Lunch at MWA and Tour of Galleries
    Afternoon Session – The American Panorama Company in Milwaukee and the F.W. Heine Diaries
    2 pm – 4 pm The Heine Diaries Project – Thomas Lidtke, Robert Teske , Antje Petty and Michael Kutzer
    - Antje Petty, Assistant Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
    - Robert Teske, Executive Director, Milwaukee County Historical Society
    - Thomas Lidtke, Executive Director, Museum of Wisconsin Art
    - Michael Kutzer, F.W. Heine Diaries Lead Transcriber
    4 pm – 4:15 pm Coffee Break
    4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A
    5:30 pm Reception

    The symposium is brought to you by the F.W. Heine Diaries Collaborators: the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee County Historical Society, and Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

    Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

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    • The Federal Republic of
      Germany/Consulate Chicago
    • Image of the Horicon State Bank logo