Views on Europe: Europe and German painting in the nineteenth century

Abstract

"In a superb selection of over a hundred and fifty masterpieces, ranging from Neoclassicism and Romanticism to Realism, academic experts from three great institutions impressively show how the thread of Europe was woven into German art. They outline the wide variety of themes painters picked up from the European literature and political or intellectual debate of the time, the aspects and events they recorded as observers and chroniclers, and how the painters criss-crossed Europe in every direction - from the Nordic countries to Spain, and from Greece to Russia - absorbing artistic influences and making their own contribution abroad at the same time. German nineteenth-century art was European in the best sense. Over three hundred and eighty coloured illustrations in this volume illustrate the masterpieces of this multi-faceted period."--Jacket.

Contents

Views on Europe -- a preface / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Martin Roth and Reinhold Baumstark -- Preface / Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens -- Acknowledgements -- Citizens of the world-the idea of Europe / Bernhard Maaz -- The Rome of the North-Athens on the Spree-Florence on the Elbe Munich, Berlin and Dresden as centres of European painting in the nineteenth century / Ulrich Bischoff and Anna Greve -- The public, internationalism and artistic independence-travelling works of art / Joachim Kaak -- An education and a model-Greece / Berhard Maaz -- Longing for the South-Italy / Herbert W. Rott -- The northern light / Birgit Verwiebe -- Alliances and exchanges-Russia, Poland and the Baltic / Wolfgang Cortjaens -- A foreign world-Spain / Herbert W. Rott -- Common sense-Great Britain / Joachim Kaak -- History as a model-Belgium / Angelika Wesenberg -- Conscientious citizenship-the Netherlands / Angelika Wesenberg -- Civilisation et peinture-France / Joachim Kaak -- The eye of Europe-Adolph Menzel / Ulrich Bischoff -- Catalogue of works exhibited -- Germany and Europe-a chronicle / Wolfgang Cortjaens.