Hinrich Sieveking

9 7/8 x 12", 169 illustrations, 93 in color. 1998

ISBN 0-916724-97-2 (paper), $35, retail only. Wholesale cloth distribution by Prestel

During the years 1770 - 1850, German literature, music, and philosophy flourished as never before. The age of Goethe, Beethoven, and Kant was a brilliant period in the history of the visual arts in Germany. Painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow were central personalities in the Romantic movement, while a generation later the painter and draftsman Adolph Menzel was no less important in the context of European realism.Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe is the catalogue of an exhibition selected from one of the world's premier private collections of German drawings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Following its tour in Germany, the show will be presented in 1998 at the Harvard University Art Museums, the Frick Collection, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The catalogue features 80 drawings and watercolors by 49 artists, including Henry Fuseli, Friedrich, Menzel, Runge, and Schinkel. Each work is reproduced in color and interpreted in its art historical context. Essays survey aspects of German drawing during the period, and trace the development of the collection formed by the Winterstein family of Munich, from which the exhibition has been selected. This volume is the most comprehensive publication on this subject available in English.

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