Late Gothic Marienaltar by Tilman Riemenschneider, 1505-1508, Herrgottskirche, Creglingen
German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art.
Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and defining its borders has been a notoriously difficult and painful process. For earlier periods German art often effectively includes that produced in German-speaking regions including Austria, Alsace and much of Switzerland, as well as largely German-speaking cities or regions to the east of the modern German borders.
Although tending to be neglected relative to Italian and French contributions from the point of view of the English-speaking world, German art has played a crucial role in the development of Western art, especially Celtic art, Carolingian art and Ottonian art. From the development of Romanesque art, France and Italy began to lead developments for the rest of the Middle Ages, but the production of an increasingly wealthy Germany remained highly important.
The German Renaissance developed in rather different directions to the Italian Renaissance, and was initially dominated by the central figure of Albrecht Dürer and the early German domination of printing. The final phase of the Renaissance, Northern Mannerism, was centred around the edges of the German lands, in Flanders and the Imperial capital of Prague, but, especially in architecture, the German Baroque and Rococo took up these imported styles with enthusiasm. The German origins of Romanticism did not lead to an equally central position in the visual arts, but German participation in the many broadly Modernist movements following the collapse of Academic art has been increasing important.
Germanart has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary...
Roman art as uncontaminated by Jewish influences. Modern art was [perceived by him as] an act of aesthetic violence by the Jews against the German spirit...
were made in Weimar Germany or by German scientists during the Weimar period. While temporarily at the University of Copenhagen, German physicist Werner...
beauty'). In Germany and Scandinavia, it was called Reformstil ('Reform style'), or Jugendstil ('Youth style'), after the popular Germanart magazine Jugend...
led-government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990. Germany has been described...
Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship...
contribution to Germanart in bringing Italian Renaissance styles and ideas to Germany. Russell calls this "Opening the Gothic windows of Germanart," while Gardner...
presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great GermanArt Exhibition. The day before...
West GermanArt Pottery is essentially a term describing the time period of 1949–1990 and became the early way to describe the pottery because the country...
Expressionism has been likened to Baroque by critics such as art historian Michel Ragon and German philosopher Walter Benjamin. According to Alberto Arbasino...
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th...
reflecting different aspects of its cultural life and history. German cuisine Music of GermanyGermanart "England's National Symbols". england.org.za. Archived...
Retrieved January 28, 2010. "The Good German critic reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 5, 2015. "The Good GermanArt of Darkness". The Vienna Review. April...
German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during...
The Haus der Kunst (German: [ˈhaʊs deːɐ̯ ˈkʊnst], House of Art) is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Munich, Bavaria. It is located at Prinzregentenstraße...
Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a Germanart school operational...
federal holiday is German Unity Day (Unity Treaty, Art. 2 sect. 2); all the other holidayss, even those celebrated all over Germany, are prescribed by...
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial...
[Ownership]. Kunst & Politik (in German). "Vermeer: The Art of Painting, The Painting's Afterlife". National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on...
Franz developed a passion for modern art and started to collect contemporary Germanart. He brought his own important art collection with early works by Joseph...
named zu den Munichen ("to the monks"). The Old High German Muniche served as basis for the modern German city name München. The river Isar was a prehistoric...
historical research. Early influential design historians include German-British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner and Swiss historian and architecture critic...
major post war German artist Joseph Beuys. This time period saw the rise of such things as performance art, video art, and conceptual art. The idea was...
The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. German culture originated with...
the largest art theft in history. In the late 1930s when the Nazi party took over power in Germany, the Nazis created a "Day of GermanArt" to celebrate...
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