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: Faculty of History and the Arts

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.

• Item Type: Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich)
• 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
• Subjects: 700 Arts and recreation; 700 Arts and recreation > 750 Paintings and paintings (museums)
• Faculties: Faculty of History and the Arts
• Language: English
• Date of oral examination: 29. June 2016
• 1. Referee: Kohle, Hubertus
• Signature of the printed copy: 0001/UMC 24298