Poor people painting

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Spitzweg : The poor poet

In the 19th century, and increasingly in the last third, paintings and graphics were called poor people painting, which thematized poverty and misery. German art critics originally used the term polemically, on the one hand for Max Liebermann's early work and the religious painting of Fritz von Uhde , on the other hand for many depictions of misery from France and Belgium, which "depicted the proletarian milieu with sentimental trimmings, but mostly the milieu of the declassed" .

Remarks

  1. ↑ HEM Braakhuis and J. van der Vliet: Patterns in the Life and Work of Matthijs Maris in: Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 10, No. 3/4 (1978-1979), pp. 142-181 p. 17
  2. ^ Emily D. Bilski: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 University of California Press, 1999 ISBN 0520222415 p. 50
  3. ^ Wolfgang Hütt: German painting and graphics in the 20th century. Berlin, 1969, p. 49

literature

  • Herman Grimm: Poor people painting in: German Rundschau , Volume 76, 1893 pp 434-438
  • Carmen Flum: Poor people painting. Depictions of poverty in German-speaking countries 1830-1914, Merzhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-942919-00-5