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78 p. Minor signs of handling on the cover, otherwise a good copy. - Preface This is the largest exhibition of 19th-century German drawings and watercolours ever to be held in this country outside London and the first major exhibition of its kind since 1968, when 150 drawings from the Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg were shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In Great Britain the Ashmolean Museum's collection of German 19th- century drawings is unique, both numerically and in terms of quality. However, although a number of the more important drawings have been exhibited from time to time, it was not until 1977, in the exhibition A Selection of Drawings by the Nazarenes and their Associates, that an opportunity arose to display a large group of them together. The majority of the works chosen on that occasion were executed before 1830. The present exhibition aims to convey a more general idea of the full range of the Ashmolean's holdings throughout the century. The nucleus of the drawings exhibited here were bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum by Dr Grete Ring (1887-1952), who was Liebermann's niece by an aunt's marriage. The daughter of a distinguished judge, she studied art history in Munich as a pupil of the legendary Heinrich Wölfflin and, after gaining her doctorate in 1912, spent the early part of the First World War as an assistant in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich before going on to work for a year in the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It was here that she acquired her extensive knowledge of 19th-century German art and her love of the drawings she was later able to collect. In 1919 Grete Ring joined the firm of Paul Cassirer, whose partner she became in 1924. For almost thirty years she continued as a dealer, first in Germany, then in Amsterdam with Helmuth Lutjens, and finally in London, where she arrived in 1938. During this period, inspired by her friendship with Max J. Friedländer, she pursued her studies in early Netherlandish painting; published learned articles in English, German, Dutch and American periodicals; and wrote her only book, A Century of French Painting 1400-1500, which remains the standard work on the subject. The high quality of the German drawings in her collection is a testimony both to her connoisseurship and her erudition. Before it became fashionable to acquire them Grete Ring had amassed a considerable number of Nazarene drawings, which rivalled in quality the works of such well established artists as Feuerbach Friedrich, Liebermann and Menzel, who were also represented on the walls of hen home in South Street. / Examples: Johann Christoph Erhard: The Ponte Salario near Rome; Anselm Feuerbach: Medea killing her Children; Caspar David Friedrich: A rocky Valley and a Stream; Ernst Fries: The Monastery of San Benedetto; Joseph von Führich: The Magdalen; Wilhelm von Kügelgen: A Woman painting at an Easel; Max Liebermann: Two Studies of a seated Man; Jakob Linkh: A small German Town; Gabriel von Max: Study of two Children; Ferdinand Olivier: View of the Church at Perchtolsdorf, with a Peasant tending Vines. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Codice articolo 1236429
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