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Description: Illustration from History of Frederick the Great

TitleIllustration from History of Frederick the Great

Creator nameMenzel, Adolph

Creator name (description)after Adolph von Menzel

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1840

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

DimensionsUnknown

LocationFrom History of Frederick the Great, 1840

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsFortification in artWood-engraving, GermanIllustration of books--19th century

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Epilogue

William Vaughan

German Romanticism and English Art

AS WITH most movements, that of Germanic tendencies in English art did not come to a sudden end. Long after it ceased to be a topical issue, its effects lingered on. The generation that grew to artistic maturity in the 1840s was still in...

Author

William Vaughan

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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Chapter subject tags:Art, British--German influencesPainting, British--19th centuryGerman literatureMenzel, Adolph, 1815-1905Aesthetics, British

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

William Vaughan

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

Related print edition pages: pp.7-22

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

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

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