The Invention of the Germans

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The Invention of the Germans How we came to be,
what we are
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Schiller, Goethe, Dürer, Wilhelm II, Marx,
Beethoven, Hitler, Wagner, Brandt,
Droste-Hülshoff, Merkel, Bismarck, Adenauer,
Kriemhild, Friedrich the Great, Luther,
Hölderlin dancing around the black, red, gold
banner first adopted as a flag of Germany in the
early 19th century. The caricature is inspired by
a famous painting by Pieter Breugel the Younger,
Peasants Dancing around the Maypole.
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Romantic Painting Music as bourgeois
consumption Social and economic conditions
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German Artist Caspar David Friedrich
(1774-1840). Individual, subjective
relationship to nature, to the point of
religiosity. Also nationalism and political
notions (dead trees, small French soldier before
giant dense forest).
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Wanderer on the Sea of Clouds
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Woman on the Shore of Rügen Island
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The Ship Destroyed by Ice
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Ship in the Arctic (1798)
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Philipp Otto Runge 1777-1810