Albrecht Dürer and the embodiment of genius: decorating museums in the nineteenth century

Abstract

"Explores the complex posthumous reception of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) as the embodiment of Germany's past artistic greatness and its current cultural aspirations and as a creative and moral examplar for contemporary artists and museum visitors"--

Contents

Preludes -- Self-fashioning and the early cult of Albrecht Dürer -- The Alte Pinakothek in Munich -- The Alte Pinakothek's direct heirs -- Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in early civic and princely institutions : Frankfurt and Karlsruhe -- Dürer and Germania in Berlin -- The figured façade, or Dürer accompanied -- Stairs to immortality -- Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.