Patterns of reception

Kruijssen, Sophie C. (2016): Patterns of reception: the early nineteenth-century German reception of British genre painting in its European context. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften

Abstract

In the early nineteenth century, British painting was seen as the epitome of modernity. In this work, it is shown that British influences played a key role in the nineteenth-century emergence of the German genre piece, as evidenced by numerous examples from the art-theoretical discourse, art criticism, the trade in paintings and prints, as well as German painting. By studying this phenomenon with phylogenetic methods, it is possible to systematically analyse, reveal, and explain the patterns and mechanisms behind a process of artistic exchange during a time when national boundaries were being crossed increasingly easily and frequently.

• Dokumententyp: Dissertationen (Dissertation, LMU München)
• Keywords: Art history, Phylogenetic systematics, Genre painting, British art, German art, Reception history, Reproductive prints, British painting on the continent, David Wilkie, William Hogarth, Josef Danhauser, Reading of the will
• Themengebiete: 700 Künste und Unterhaltung ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 750 Malerei
• Fakultäten: Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften
• Sprache der Hochschulschrift: Englisch
• Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 29. Juni 2016
• 1. Bericht­erstatter:in: Kohle, Hubertus