William Sieger leads a group of students on a study tour
William
B.
Sieger
Professor, Art History
Art + Design
College of Arts and Sciences
Courses Taught
Introduction to Art History I
Introduction to Art History II
Contemporary Art
WIP: Methods of Research in A rt History
Medieval Arts of the West
Painting of the Italian Renaissance
Painting of the United States of America
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art
Nineteenth Century European Art
20th Century European Art
Research Interests
German Expressionist painting and graphic arts, American park and cemetery design, 20th century European and American Art, 19th century American painting and graphic arts
Education

Ph.D. Art History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign and Urbana, IL

Master of Arts, Art History and Museum Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign and Urbana, IL

Bachelor of Arts, Art History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

Bachelor of Science, Studio Art, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI

Selected Publications

“Immigrant Culture and Community Conflict at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago,”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 114, no. 1, spring 2021, pp. 35-68.


Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. 30 vols. s.v. “Nolde, Emil,” Berlin: De Gruyter
Publishing House, 2020.


“Emil Nolde’s Biblical Paintings of 1909,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, no. 2, 2010, pp. 255-
272.


“Emil Nolde’s Religious Paintings of 1909 and the Beginnings of Modernism in Germany,”
Proceeding for the School of Visual Arts Twentieth Annual National Conference: Reassessing
the Modern, Modernity and Modernism, New York: School of Visual Arts, 2007.


“Anti-clerics and Commemoration at Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago,” Proceedings of the Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey: The WAPACC Organization, 2006.


“Vita Activa/Vita Contemplativa: Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt,” The Burlington
Magazine, February, 2005, pp. 100-107.


“Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt.” Proceeding
for the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference: Art and Story, New York:
School of Visual Arts, 2005.


“John Chandler Bancroft and Art in Newport and New England in the 1860s,” Newport History:
The Journal of the Newport Historical Society, vol. 71, part 2, no. 247 (2002), pp. 36-48.


“Whistler and John Chandler Bancroft,” The Burlington Magazine, October, 1994, pp. 675-682.


American Master Prints from the Collection of Marian and Belverd E. Needles, Jr. Exhibition
catalogue and essay, DePaul University Art Gallery, May, 1991.


“American Master Prints from the Needles Collection,” The Journal of the Print World,
Summer, 1991, pp. 10-11.

Selected Exhibitions

American Master Prints from Whistler to Benton from the Collection of Marian and Belverd E. Needles Jr., DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Room FA 105A
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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
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Office Hours
Tuesday: 8:45-9:15 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon; 3-4 p.m.
Thursday: 8:45-9:15 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon
and by appointment
Main Campus