Claude Keisch

The catalogue from a 2001 exhibition of paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie. For the most part, these are paintings by artists little known in the UK; other than Caspar Friedrich, I knew none of them before seeing the exhibition. The catalogue has an extensive introduction describing the origin of the Nationalgalerie and its role in establishing a particularly German form of painting and in helping build a national consciousness before talking at length about the different phases and show more movements in German painting during the Nineteenth century. show less