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Book Carl Blechen and the Beginnings of Realistic Landscape Painting in Germany

Download or read book Carl Blechen and the Beginnings of Realistic Landscape Painting in Germany written by Lisa Friend Fine and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760 1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

Book A History of Modern Germany Since 1815

Download or read book A History of Modern Germany Since 1815 written by Frank Tipton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany continues to fascinate us into the twenty-first century because, unlike the history or national existence of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state until late in the nineteenth century? How did Germany become an industrial power? What responsibility does Germany bear for the two World Wars? This accessible but authoritative study attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions through looking at the economic, social, political and cultural forces which have created modern Germany. The 1848 revolutions ushered in an age of Realism which saw rapid economic development and the creation of the Bismarckian empire. However, by the early twentieth century Germany's economic expansion and position as a world power began to fracture and growing internal, economic, social and political contradictions led it, with disastrous results, into the First World War and the subsequent Weimar Republic. Hitler and the Nazi movement proposed a 'revolution' and the creation of a 'German style' and the Second World War/Holocaust is, arguably, the defining event of the twentieth century. The Americanization of the German economy and society, the 'economic miracle' and euphoria of reunification have in recent years rapidly given way to disillusionment as the major political parties have failed to master outstanding social and environmental problems. The 'German question' - Germany's place within the European Union - continues to be unanswered even within an EU where it is the dominant economic power.

Book  Landscape Imagery  Politics  and Identity in a Divided Germany  1968 989

Download or read book Landscape Imagery Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany 1968 989 written by Catherine Wilkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape Imagery, Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book demonstrates that, contrary to some historical thinking, more similarities than differences characterized the sociopolitical concerns of East and West Germans during the late Cold War Era, and that it was these shared issues that were reflected in the revival of the Romantic painting genre. Catherine Wilkins focuses on recovering the agency of the individual artist and in revising historiography with sensitivity to narration 'from below.' Interdisciplinary in nature, art historians can benefit from the study's analysis of images and artists not widely known outside of Germany. Additionally, the consolidation of statistics and data regarding German postwar cultural policy are relevant for political and cultural historians. The author contributes to the ongoing multidisciplinary debates regarding Histoire Crois?(in arguing that a clear dichotomy between East Germany and West Germany did not exist but rather that the residents of both nations shared a concern over some of the same issues of the period) and memory studies (by using images as primary historical sources, able to be employed in the recovery of potentially 'subversive' memory and identity). Issues related to gender relations, environmentalism, and spiritual belief are addressed by Wilkins, with appeal for scholars working with those particular themes. Poststructuralist and literary theorists as well can find arguments supporting an alternative means of writing history through artworks and private memories.

Book Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture written by Allison Lee Palmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism is multifaceted, and a wide range of nostalgic, emotional, and exotic concerns were expressed in such styles and movements as the Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Orientalism, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some movements were regional and subject-specific, such as the Hudson River School of landscape painting in the United States and the German Nazarene movement, which focused primarily on religious art in Rome. The movements range across Western Europe and include the United States. This dictionary will provide a fuller historical context for Romanticism and enable the reader to identify major trends and explore artists of the period. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major artists of the romantic era as well as entries on related art movements, styles, aesthetic philosophies, and philosophers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic art.

Book German Romantic Painting

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Vaughan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300060478
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book German Romantic Painting written by William Vaughan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 19th century was a period in German art in which painting played a significant part in the cultural resurgence commonly known as the Romantic Movement. This Movement and some of its chief exponents are examined against a background of German literature, philosophy and music.

Book National Geographic Traveler   Berlin

Download or read book National Geographic Traveler Berlin written by Damien Simonis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Off-the-beaten path excursions, insider tips, not-to-be-missed lists, authentic experiences"--Cover.

Book Adolph Menzel  1815 1905

Download or read book Adolph Menzel 1815 1905 written by Adolph Menzel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous across Europe and America, recipient of the highest possible honours in Germany including the order of the Black Eagle and elevation to nobility, admired by Degas as 'the greatest living master', Adolph Menzel was perhaps the greatest German painter of the late nineteenth century. In this splendidly illustrated book - the only comprehensive volume on Menzel in English - photographs of the artist and contemporary Berlin accompany reproductions of hundreds of his paintings and drawings. Menzel specialists and art historians contribute chapters on his life and art, his visits to France, his critical reception, relevant social and historical background, and different approaches to his work. Until recently, Menzel's many paintings and drawings were separated from one another in collections on either side of the Berlin Wall. Now, in the wake of reunification, the Berlin Museums have put together the most extensive Menzel exhibit since the retrospective that followed his death in 1905. This book is the catalogue for the exhibit that had its debut at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris (April 15 to July 28), travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (September 15, 1996 to January 5, 1997) and returns to Nationalgalerie in Berlin (February 7 to May 11, 1997).

Book A German Dream

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kristina Mösl
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book A German Dream written by Kristina Mösl and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century written by Torsten Gunnarsson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study identifies and analyzes the different types of landscape painting that dominated the Scandinavian countries in the 19th century. The author shows how the wilderness became a symbol of Nordic strength, as well as a counter-image to industrialization and European urban culture.

Book Baltic Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Johnston
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300081669
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Baltic Light written by Catherine Johnston and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the nineteenth century, Danish and German artists studying in Paris and Rome brought back the concept of "plein air" painting and began to paint out-of-doors on their native soil. They introduced a whole new aesthetic that was sensitive to the light and atmospheric conditions peculiar to the north, especially during the long summer days. This beautiful book focuses on the painters and paintings of this period, particularly Caspar David Friedrich, who produced many fine works before he developed the romantic style for which he is better known. The book presents topographical landscapes, panoramas, and some group and individual portraits that often include a window from which light emanates. Essays by eminent authorities discuss various aspects of the Danish and North German open air movement. They note, for example, that the paintings reflect a direct view of nature devoid of the intellectual and moral overtones of the neoclassical paintings that preceded them. They also discuss the fact that Schleswig Holstein was closely allied with Denmark until 1848, and this favored many Hamburg and north German artists studying at the Academy in Copenhagen where painting out of doors was encouraged. In addition to the essays, the book presents 108 works by twenty-three artists, catalogue entries for each work, and a biography of each artist.

Book Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

Download or read book Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin written by Nationalgalerie (Germany : East) and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important collections of 19th century painting and sculpture.

Book German Masters of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book German Masters of the Nineteenth Century written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1981 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter

Download or read book From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter written by Ulrich Bischoff and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter brings together a select group of paintings from the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden--one of the most significant collections of German art from 1800 to the present--and new work from the renowned contemporary artist Gerhard Richter."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Wanderer in 19th century German Literature

Download or read book Wanderer in 19th century German Literature written by Andrew Cusack and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using a method based on New Historicism, but with added emphasis on literature as cultural commentary, Andrew Cusack's study traces the motif's intertextual connections, how it receives meaning from non-literary discourses, and how it transmits meaning into the social sphere by molding individual and collective self-conceptions. The study draws on a corpus of ten prose narratives that reflect the vast scope of the motif and show how its function changes. The study pays scrupulous attention to the historical specificity of each work and to its relationship to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical currents, revealing the wanderer motif to be a significant vehicle of cultural memory that sustained the ideas of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism into the latter part of the century."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Romantics  Realists  Revolutionaries

Download or read book Romantics Realists Revolutionaries written by Helmut Börsch-Supan and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The eighty-four masterpieces illustrated in this volume provide a unique overview of the works held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. The most important German artists of the period are represented here, including Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Blechen, Max Klinger, Wilhelm Leibl, Adolf von Menzel, Fritz von Uhde, Max Liebermann, and Lovis Corinth. Their works underline the principle movements and developments, as well as the radical changes experienced in a century of change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Masterworks from Stuttgart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth P. Streicher
  • Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Masterworks from Stuttgart written by Elizabeth P. Streicher and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue prepared by the Saint Louis Art Museum to accompany an exhibition held at the museum which featured 123 paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the permanent collection of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.