Patterns of reception
The early nineteenth-century German reception of British genre painting in its European context
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Beschreibung
An art-historical study of the early nineteenth-century German reception of British genre painting in its European context.
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.
Autor*in
Sophie Kruijssen
Dr. Sophie Kruijssen studied Art History at the Radboud University Nijmegen (B.A.) and Utrecht University (M.A.) in The Netherlands, before receiving her PhD degree in Art History from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with her thesis “Patterns of reception: the early nineteenth-century German reception of British genre painting in its European context". She is particularly interested in the transnational exchange of ideas, images, styles and concepts in art around 1800. In her publications, she explores the broader mechanisms behind local artistic developments. For this purpose she combines classical art-historical approaches with techniques from other disciplines, such as phylogenetic methods from evolutionary biology.
Themen in »Patterns of reception«
Art history Phylogenetic systematics Genre painting British art German art Reception history Reproductive prints David Wilkie William Hogarth Reading of the will