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Article: Germans Had Beethoven, but Could They Paint?(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2001
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
It has long been one of the paradoxes of cultural life in the English-speaking world that while 19th-century German music, the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelsohn et al., has dominated the repertory of our concert halls and the recording of classical music, German painting of the same period has remained-until recently, anyway-an isolated and sectarian taste. No doubt the causes of this fundamental difference are many and complex, but one of them, certainly, is the fact that our own most influential modern artists, critics and museum curators have tended in the 20th century to look upon 19th-century Germany as a ...