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Article: New light on painters of Germany.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2001
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French artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cezanne dominated 19th-century art for so long that Germans always lagged. A long-awaited survey of German art of this period that highlights both Prussian King Frederick the Great's power and Germany's birth as a unified nation in 1871 casts new light on this competition and on just what German art is. "Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings From the Nationalgalerie, Berlin" opens at the National Gallery of Art with the beautiful landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, progresses through the romantic-historic and industrialized scenes of Adolph Menzel and concludes with the violent expressionism of ...
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