The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850

Philadelphia and New Haven, CT: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2017. Pictorial boards, xi, 411 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "From the 1770s through the 1840s, German, Austrian, and Swiss artists used the medium of printmaking to create works that synthesized poetry, literature, music, and the visual arts in new and captivating ways. Finding an eager audience in the growing number of educated middle-class collectors, printmakers experimented with modern technologies, such as lithography, and drew on the contemporary interest in regional folklore and traditional fairy tales to produce innovative compositions that both contributed to and reflected the dramatic cultural and political upheavals of the Romantic era. Featuring the work of more than 120 artists, including Casper David Friedrich, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Joseph Anton Koch, Philipp Otto Runge, and Johann Gottfried Schadow, this authoritative book contains many unique and never-before-published examples of prints from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's unrivaled collection." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Timothy Rub; Introduction, by John Ittmann; John S. Phillips as a collector of German prints, by John Ittmann; Central Europe between 1770 and 1850: the rise and fall of German Romantic art and culture, by Warren Breckman; Albrecht Du rer and his hallowed city of Nuermberg, by John Ittmann; Raphael's Sistine Madonna domesticated: a return to purity and piety in German prints, by Cordula Grewe; The Galeriewerk and the reproductive print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by John Ittmann; Glazed and framed: Kunstverein prints for the parlor, by John Ittmann; The wanderer: travel imagery in German romantic prints, by Mitchell B. Frank; Sacred woods and ancient ruins: the landscapes of Germany and Norway, Italy and Arcadia, by F. Carlo Schmid; Johann Christian Reinhart (1761-1847) and his circle in Italy, by F. Carlo Schmid; Landscape prints in Vienna, by F. Carlo Schmid; Portrait prints, 1770-1850: friends and family, by Mitchell B. Frank; The German Romantic reading public: Taschenbu cher and other illustrated books, by Catriona Macleod; The living past: folklore and fairy tales in literature and art, by Catriona Macleod; Outline and arabesque: simplicity and complexity in German prints, and the allure of the antique, by Cordula Grewe; Johann Heinrich Lips (1758-1817) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810): Times of day, by Cordula Grewe; Ferdinand Olivier (1785-1841) and Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803-1884): the Salzburg albums, by Cordula Grewe; Johann Gotthard Mu ller (1747-1830), by Mitchell B. Frank; Johann Christian Klengel (1751-1824), by John Ittmann; Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder (1759-1835), by John Ittmann; Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839), by John Ittmann; Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790-1863), by John Ittmann; Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803-1884), by John Ittmann; Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (1806-1882), by John Ittmann.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Collectible.