Romanticism in Germany and Russia
Dresden: Hirmer / Staalichekunstsammlungen Dresden, 2021. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition in Moscow and Dresden publishes paintings of the early and mid nineteenth century by German and Russian artists whose tone and style show that Romanticism was European rather than national, and the ideals that inspired artists were similar. Chapter headings: the means if freedom; key concepts of Romanticism; Encounters on the Elbe: Russian and German artists in Dresden; Reluctant freedom: E.T.A. Hoffmann and Casper David Friedrich’s reception in Russia; the impossibility of freedom; the invention of homeland, Italy; adopted home; triumph of religion in the arts; painters of the transcendent; protagonists, the self-portrait; the inner world; the freedom of art. Among the artists whose works figure in the exhibition are Ivanov, Briullov, Vorobyov, Zaitsev, Venetsianov, Tropinin. N. Chernetsov. Zobolotskii, Shchedrin, and Kiprenskii; Caspar Friedrich, Carl Carus, Ernst Oehme, Johan Dahl, Karl Traugott Faber, and Carl Blechen. 359 p., 29 cm, approx. 300 color illus., ENGLISH. Item #4350
ISBN: 9783777435824
Other ISBNs: 9783777435831, 9785895803226, 9785895803219.
Price: $119.00