Larry Silver. Review of "Die gottlosen Maler von Nürnberg: Konvention und Subversion in der Druckgrafik der Beham-Brüder" by Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte.

Silver, Larry

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“…45 Similar claims can be (and have been) made for images that purportedly reveal artists' sympathies with the more revolutionary ideas of the theologians of the Radical Reformation, although these iconographies tended to be more idiosyncratic and subversive, rather than part of any comparable systematic formulation. 46 Zülch, however, does not make an iconographic argument. He notes that Grünewald consistently deviated throughout his oeuvre from 'the ecclesiastically sanctioned form of representation (iconography)'.…”

Section: Grünewald the Revolutionarymentioning

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Mit dem Kreidestift und Farben: Revolutionizing Grünewald in the German Democratic Republic

Golan

2023

Art History

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In 1952, the director of East Berlin's Märkisches Museum discovered three drawings by Matthias Grünewald pasted into a Luther Bible. This remarkable find set off a fascinating tale of art‐historical espionage, but also served as a generative moment for the construction of the well‐worn cliché of Grünewald as a revolutionary and peasant sympathizer. I examine the artist's transformation into an embodiment of the GDR's socialist ideals by interrogating East German art historian W. K. Zülch's analyses of the newly discovered drawings, which used formal analysis – rather than historical evidence – to figure Grünewald as an ideological accomplice in the German Peasants' War of 1525. Significantly, Zülch presented the tools of the artist's trade (‘Kreidestift und Farben’) as a way to reconcile form and political content, offering an alternative Socialist model to the SED's state‐sponsored culture.

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Section: Grünewald the Revolutionarymentioning

confidence: 98%

Mit dem Kreidestift und Farben: Revolutionizing Grünewald in the German Democratic Republic

Golan

2023

Art History

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Larry Silver. Review of "Die gottlosen Maler von Nürnberg: Konvention und Subversion in der Druckgrafik der Beham-Brüder" by Jürgen Müller and Thomas Schauerte.

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Mit dem Kreidestift und Farben: Revolutionizing Grünewald in the German Democratic Republic

Mit dem Kreidestift und Farben: Revolutionizing Grünewald in the German Democratic Republic

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