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Loading... Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings From the National Galerie, Berlinby Claude Keisch, Françoise Forster-Hahn
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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 movements in German painting during the Nineteenth century. ( ) no reviews | add a review
This magnificent book traces the development of nineteenth-century German paintings through the story of a remarkable institution--the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, one of Germany's most important collections. In their substantial general essays, Françoise Forster-Hahn surveys the social and political background to art and culture in Berlin in the nineteenth century; Claude Keisch and Angelika Wesenberg discuss the reception of German painting in Germany itself; and Peter-Klaus Schuster provides a historical overview of the Nationalgalerie. The authors focus on some seventy paintings, from the sublime canvases of Caspar David Friedrich and other Romantic painters early in the nineteenth century to scenes of industrial Berlin and the brilliantly observed works of the naturalists of the 1840s and 1850s, ending with the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist innovations of French and German artists that so startled Berlin around 1900, when the Nationalgalerie acquired them against the wishes of the highly conservative and anti-French Kaiser. Richly detailed cityscapes by Eduard Gaertner and Johann Erdmann Hummel provide wonderful views of mid-century Berlin, and powerful works by Max Beckmann and Lovis Corinth announce the Expressionism of later decades of the twentieth century. Claude Keisch is Senior Curator at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Peter-Klaus Schuster is Director General at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Françoise Forster-Hahn is professor of the history of art, University of California. Angelika Wesenberg is Curator at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Published by National Gallery Company Distributed by Yale University Press This book is published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery in London and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ]]> No library descriptions found. |
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