CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined and innovative work in the academy and in the museum has distinguished her early in her career. “I am happy to welcome Lynette to our staff,” said Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. “Her academic experience and her original work as a curator and writer make her perfectly suited to this position and to our teaching and research mission.” In 2008, Roth curated a groundbreaking exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, in Cologne, Germany, titled Köln Progressiv 1920–33: Seiwert – Hoerle – Arntz, which focused on three core members of the artistic circle known as the Cologne Progressives. The