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Und die alten Formen st眉rzen ein
Civil society as we know it today emerged around 1800. The self-confident middle class founded numerous associations and educational institutions, including the Kunstgesellschaft Luzern in 1819 to put together a picture archive for the general populace. On the occasion of the anniversary, the presentation of the collection will focus on that revolutionary epoch with special reference to the Friedrich Schiller quotation.
The upheavals in society and politics also had an impact on art. This is particularly evident in changes in the genre of the portrait, which moved from courtly pomp and ceremonial strictness to a bourgeois lifestyle and intimacy. History painters approached new themes, while religious art adopted different forms of depictions. With its ancient cities and warmer climate Italy continued to be the model and the country of longing for many artists. But Switzerland, surrounded by absolutist states and the homeland of William Tell, also was stylized as a place of Republican freedom and bucolic idylls.
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Civil society as we know it today emerged around 1800. The self-confident middle class founded numerous associations and educational institutions, including the Kunstgesellschaft Luzern in 1819 to put together a picture archive for the general populace. On the occasion of the anniversary, the presentation of the collection will focus on that revolutionary epoch with special reference to the Friedrich Schiller quotation.
The upheavals in society and politics also had an impact on art. This is particularly evident in changes in the genre of the portrait, which moved from courtly pomp and ceremonial strictness to a bourgeois lifestyle and intimacy. History painters approached new themes, while religious art adopted different forms of depictions. With its ancient cities and warmer climate Italy continued to be the model and the country of longing for many artists. But Switzerland, surrounded by absolutist states and the homeland of William Tell, also was stylized as a place of Republican freedom and bucolic idylls.
Artists on show
- Anton Graff
- Augustin Schmid
- Clara Reinhard
- Felix Maria Diogg
- Franz Schrotzberg
- Gabriel Lory the Elder
- Hans Jakob Oeri
- Heinrich Heuser
- Henry Fuseli
- Ignaz Pfyffer von Altishofen
- Jakob Christoph Miville
- Jakob Samuel Weibel
- Jean-Georges Volmar
- Johann Baptist Marzohl
- Johann Jakob Biedermann
- Johann Melchior Wyrsch
- Josef Alfons Alois Reinhard
- Joseph Anton Maria鈥� Christen
- Jost Schiffmann
- Léopold Robert
- Louis Aimé Grosclaude
- Louis-Leopold Robert
- Ludwig Vogel
- Melchior Paul von Deschwanden
- Peter Birmann
- Rudolf Heinrich Füssli
- Samuel Birmann
- Sigismund Meyer von Schauensee
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