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The Fall of the Fatherland

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Description: The Fall of the Fatherland

TitleThe Fall of the Fatherland

Creator nameRunge, Philipp Otto

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1809

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen in black over pencil

Dimensions16.7 × 11 cm (image); 19.3 × 13.4 cm (sheet)

LocationHamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

https://online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/en/objekt/34316

Accession number34316

SubjectsDrawing, GermanRomanticism--GermanyAllegories

StatusCover design for Vaterländisches Museum

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Chapter 1: The Painter’s Germany, 1800–50

William Vaughan

Description: German Romantic Painting

German Romantic Painting

~THE CHANGES THAT bring about a new direction in art usually take place gradually, almost imperceptibly. Only when a work is created that can present these changes with boldness and conviction does it become apparent that a startling transformation has taken place. In the history of the Romantic movement in German...

Author

William Vaughan

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright©1994 by William Vaughan

Related print edition pages: pp.7-22

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00058.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19699&redirecttoanchor=45896

Chapter subject tags:Romanticism--GermanyPainting, German--19th centuryFriedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840Nationalism in artArt patronage

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