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American Artists in MunichArtistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processesby Christian Fuhrmeister, Hubertus Kohle, Veerle ThielemansThis volume follows the symposium of the same name, which was organized in cooperation with the Terra Foundation for American Art and with support of the Amerika Haus München e.V. The symposium set out to to explore the phenomenon of artistic migration and to investigate the attraction of Munich, the self-proclaimed "City of the Arts“ for American Artists from the mid-19th century to World War I and beyond: Who came, when, and why? • The symposium, and this book, set out to answer important questions including: What, in particular, prompted Americans to come to Munich: The academy's renown in teaching technical skills, or the city's bustling art scene? To what extent did the change in genre from history to landscape painting contribute to Munich's attractiveness, as opposed to Düsseldorf, which had basically been the Americans' first choice until the mid-19th century? How influential was, finally, the appeal of Paris as an avant-garde center in debasing the training in Munich as old-fashioned and traditional? • The decision of a place of study depended not just on the attractiveness of a city and its art institutions, but also on the students' own cultural background. Existing studies of American painters in Munich focus on leading representatives from the peak of the movement in the early 1870s and 1880s, when the realism of the returning artists' paintings caused something of a sensation in the American "art world". This complex phenomenon must be investigated in its entirety, taking into account the development of styles and genres over half a century, experienced by approx. 420 American students - who formed one of the largest groups of non-German-speaking students enrolled at the Academy , and also by an unknown number of American artists who studied elsewhere in town, in numerous private schools and studios.
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