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Winckelmann's work marked the entry of art history into the high-philosophical discourse of German culture; he was read avidly by Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, both of whom began to write on the history of art, and his account of the Laocoön Group occasioned a response by Lessing. Goethe had tried to train as an artist, and his landscape ...
The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. German culture originated with the Germanic tribes, the earliest evidence of Germanic culture dates to the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany and Denmark. Contact with Germanic tribes were described by various Greco-Roman ...
One of the most important German humanists was Konrad Celtis (1459–1508). Celtis studied at Cologne and Heidelberg, and later travelled throughout Italy collecting Latin and Greek manuscripts. Heavily influenced by Tacitus, he used the Germania to introduce German history and geography. Eventually he devoted his time to poetry, in which he ...
History of art in Germany (1 C, 3 P) M. Visual arts magazines published in Germany (1 C, 42 P) N. Nazarene movement (1 C, 19 P) O. Ottonian art (4 C, 8 P) P.
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In 2012, the Städel was honoured as Museum of the Year by the German art critics association AICA. [8] [9] In the same year the museum recorded the highest attendance figures in its history, of 447,395 visitors. [10] In 2020 the museum had 318,732 visitors, down 45 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. [1] 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. [1]