HIST-2300 Lecture 2: Modern Life in Wilhelmine Germany
21 Sep 2018
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1890-1918: section 3: wilhelm ii, "true art" (1901) Wilhelm is very culturally conservative believed art should be used as a tool to teach society favored art that was traditional (renaissance, no impressionism) Like beauty, harmony, and law of classical arts (cid:3247)can never be surpassed or violated without endangering world progress(cid:3248) Art that violates laws is no longer art if you don"t agree with his idea of art you"re wrong. Art should teach the people, educate the public very political. Also wanted to bring the lower classes into the art. Need to show greatness through art used as propaganda. Wants to merge national and patriotic art: hans rosenhagen, "national art in berlin" (1897) Werner = court painter, rejected social realism movement art critics made fun of it and their backwardness. Surrounded by modern art and just refuses to accept the trend of the world. His students were poor artists and his tirades drove them to produce more modern art.
