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Title

• Caspar David Friedrich to Ferdinand Hodler : a romantic tradition : nineteenth-century paintings and drawings from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur / Peter Wegmann ; with contributions by William Vaughan, Franz Zelger and Matthias Wohlgemuth ; edited and translated from the German by Margarita Russell.

Author

Wegmann, Peter, 1957-

Publication

Frankfurt am Main : Insel ; New York : Distributed in hardback in the United States and Canada by H. N. Abrams, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Alte Nationalgalerie (Germany)
• Altes Museum (Berlin, Germany)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• National Gallery (Great Britain)
• Russell, Margarita.
• Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz"
• Vaughan, William, 1943-
• Wohlgemuth, Matthias.
• Zelger, Franz, 1941-

Description

286 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

• This book accompanies an international exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation in Winterthur, one of the finest collections of German, Austrian and Swiss art in Europe. Oskar Reinhart (1885 - 1965) presented his extraordinary collection of Northern Romantic and Realist art to the town of Winterthur, establishing a museum with over five hundred paintings and several thousand drawings. The collection opened to the public in 1951 but still remains little known outside Switzerland - paintings from the Foundation are lent only on rare occasions and the Reinhart collection has never been shown abroad.
• With introductory essays and detailed texts on each artist, this book surveys a rich pictorial tradition, ranging from the quiet introspection of the Romantic era and the gentle charm of Biedermeier to the robust art of Realist and Symbolist painters at the end of the century. Paintings by major artists (including Friedrich, Runge, Menzel, Bocklin, Liebermann and Hodler) are discussed alongside works by less familiar figures whose work deserves greater recognition.

Alternative Title

Romantic tradition

Subject

• Art > Winterthur > Exhibitions
• Art, Austrian > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art, German > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Swiss > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Drawing > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840 > Exhibitions
• Hodler, Ferdinand, 1853-1918 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Modern > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Reinhart, Oskar, 1885-1965 > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Romanticism in art > Exhibitions
• Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" > Exhibitions
• Stiftung Oskar Reinhart > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Berlin (1993)
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Exhibition tour: Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, 14 May-12 September 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 30 September 1993-2 January 1994; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 February-24 April 1994; The National Gallery, London, 15 June-4 September 1994; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Musée Rath), Geneva, 30 September 1994-12 February 1995" -- P. facing t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0810964325 (hardback)

OCLC

29173733

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library