Dream and Machine. German Art-Romanticism to World War I

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It was in the Bavarian mountains that much of Germany's sense of nationhood and identity was forged. Caspar David Friedrich became the Romantic movement's first great painter, creating perhaps its defining image in Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. More explicitly nationalistic was the Nazarene Brotherhood, a group of young artists, including Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Philipp Veit, who lived like monks in a deconsecrated monastery. This program also examines the German 19th century itself, a period in which Bavarian nationalism met German Romanticism in the extraordinary buildings of Ludwig I and his heirs. Viewers then enter historic Dresden, where the early 20th-century work of Ernst Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Otto Dix fused modern art styles with those of the German Renaissance 400 years before.

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50 min

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[2011], c2010

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