Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction, I. Themes of German Romantic Painting: Brotherhood; The Romantic Self; Role-Playing: Overbeck as the monk-srtist; Overbeck the independent man; Overbeck the monk-artist; Historicism; The Nazarenes’ view on imitation; The Nazarenes’ search for origins; Indirect Communication; Fredrich’s reflections on nature; Runge and the coherence of art; II. Romanticism Rewritten: The marginalization of the Nazarenes, The first histories of modern German painting; The Nazarenes and the critics, 1850-1900; From Overbeck and Cornelius to Friedrich and Runge, From nationalism to formalism, From formalism to racism, the reassessment of Goethe, The Nazarenes defended; Anti-Semitism and formalism, Conclusion, Index.

About the Author

Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Reviews

'the most scholarly and complete work on the Nazarenes in English to date ...a rich, philosophically and historically informed account ...an important rediscovery of a neglected chapter in the history of art' Lionel Gossman (Princeton University), author of Basel in the Age of Burckhardt.