Author: Wegmann, Peter
Title: Caspar David Friedrich To Ferdinand Hodler : A Romantic Tradition - Nineteenth Century Paintings And Drawings From The Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur
Description: Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art New York - The National Gallery, London - Insel Verlag, 1993, 1st edition. Large format paperback, VG+. 288pp, colour & b/w illustrations throughout, index, a near fine copy, rear cover a little creased and with a little grubbiness to the verso & fore edge, covers just a little yellowed. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ Catalogue of an exhibition of Gerrman, Austrian & Swiss art in the Northern Romantic & Realist tradition from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation collection. The paintings range from the quite introspection of the Romantic era & the quiet charm of the Biedermeier at the start of the 19th century to the robust art of the Realist & Symbolist painters at the end of the century. Many of the paintings are little known outside of Switzerland.

Keywords: art, german art, painting, swiss art, biedermeier, realist