CHAPTER XXIX

REALISM IN GERMANY

Why historical painting and the anecdotic picture could no longer take the central place in the life of German art after the changes of 1870.--Berlin: Adolf Menzel, A. v. Werner, Carl Güssow, Max Michael.--Vienna: August v. Pettenkofen.--Munich becomes once more a formative influence.--Importance of the impetus given in the seventies to the artistic crafts, and how it afforded an incentive to an exhaustive study of the old colourists.--Lorenz Gedon, W. Diez, E. Harburger, W. Loefftz, Claus Meyer, A. Holmberg, Fritz August Kaulbach.--Good painting takes the place of the well-told anecdote.--Transition from the costume picture to the pure treatment of modern life.--Franz Lenbach.--The Ramberg school.--Victor Müller brings into Germany the knowledge of Courbet.--Wilhelm Leibl 39