Spirit of an Age

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This book, with essays that provide continuity and contacts, and with detailed entries on individual paintings, offers a rare introduction in English to German art of the 19th century. The Realist movement cannot be understood without attention to a number of outstanding German artists that were notably mentioned in this book. It accompanies a major loan exhibition organized by the national Gallery, London and the national Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Artist in this book Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Joseph Koch, Carl Fohr, Max Leibermann and much more.