Internationaler Naturalismus und skandinavische Kunst

Abstract

Summary The artistic situation in late nineteenth‐century Germany ‐ and elsewhere — was comparatively international. From about 1890 works from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland by artists such as Anna and Michael Ancher, Christian and Oda Krohg, Peder Severin Kroyer, Frits Thaulow, Erik Werenskiold, Richard Bergh, Bruno Liljefors, Anders Zorn, Albert Edelfelt etc. — Edvard Munch has been excluded here — could be seen in exhibitions throughout Germany. The reaction of the critics was in some cases favourable, in others less so. By the 1890s the interest in Scandinavian Naturalism had reached its apex only to be followed by a decline after the turn of the century when French Impressionism ever increasingly came to be equated with so‐called modern art. To establish how Scandinavian painting was received in Germany during the late nineteenth century the following aspects were examined: (I.) the views presented in the main art historical literature of the period (especially those of Richard Muther 1893/94),...