Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2005

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2002.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: James J. Bloom, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, Dept. of Art History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 79 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Includes color illustrations. Includes bibliography and index. Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

The aim of my master’s thesis is to study how of nationalism was expressed in Swedish and Danish paintings c. 1850 to 1865. In both Sweden and Denmark there were strong feelings of nationalism in the 19th century. The development towards a modern nation state meant that people began to feel like citizens of a nation rather than subjects to a king. In the words of the Irish-American anthropologist and political scientist Benedict Anderson they had the feeling of being in an imagined community.  I examine how nationalism was expressed, what factors influenced the portrayal of national feelings and the purpose of choices of subject. The final question is if there are differences between the countries and, if any, possible reasons. The time period I have chosen is the time between the two Slesvig wars in Denmark, which is now often seen as the latter part of the Danish Golden Age. It is also the period when many Swedish painters chose to travel to Düsseldorf to study painting and the Düsseldorf school became especially important in genre and landscape painting, often with nationalistic subjects. My study is divided into four themes, Mythology, Monarchs, People and Nature, covering different aspects of life and also of different categories of painting. For each theme I examine one painting by a Swedish artist and one by a Danish artist using Panofsky’s iconological method.  I include other paintings and texts for reference.  The expression of nationalism shows similarities between the countries, such as use of old Norse mythology and genre paintings of rural people in traditional costumes. Landscape paintings reflected the geographical differences between the countries. Current events, in particular the Slesvig wars for Denmark, also left their mark on nationalism and found their way into art.

The genre paintings of the artist Pehr Hilleström (1732–1816) are frequently used as illustrations of everyday life in the Swedish late Eighteen-century bourgeois households. The aim of this study is to examine Hilleströms interior scenes as a source to the cultural history of the Eighteenth century in Sweden.  The Eighteenth century is often described as a period when the concepts of home and household changed and came to be seen as something private and more intimate than before. In this study I examine if these new perceptions of the household found expression in Hilleströms images. In addition, I also analyze if, and to what extent these images can be seen as moralizing.  I do this by examining Hilleströms bourgeoise interiors in relation both to French genre painting, and to accounts of home and household derived from readings of range of Eighteenth-century literary sources. In my examination of the views on household of Hilleström and his contemporaries I use Michael Baxandalls concepts troc and period eye. The primary sources I use to create a period eye, comprise novels, satirical verse, theatre plays and conduct books.  The study shows that Hilleströms images owe quite a lot to conventions of genre painting and, especially to French painters, such as Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin. The content of Hilleström’s pictures correspond well to the image of the traditional, ideal home found in contemporary literature. However, the new, more sentimental ideas about home and household are not to be found in Hilleström’s images. Whether Hilleström’s images are moralizing or not, I find more difficult to conclude. While not explicitly satirical, in the light of the Eighteenth-century literary texts, they might have been interpreted so by the viewer.

Après un séjour en Irlande de 1846 à 1850, le peintre écossais Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) représenta les Irlandais dans la plupart de ses tableaux. Il remporta un franc succès à la Royal Scottish Academy (Édimbourg), puis à la Royal Academy (Londres). Nous analyserons les raisons d’une telle popularité en adoptant, entre autres, une méthode issue des études culturelles, montrant que Nicol adapta les préjugés scientifiques de son temps ainsi que les clichés sur les Irlandais afin de créer son iconographie de l’Irlande. Au-delà des portraits flatteurs des paysannes irlandaises, Nicol peignit aussi de nombreuses caricatures, suggérant qu’il était tributaire des idées impérialistes de l’époque. Pourtant, sa peinture demeure ambivalente : certaines toiles, soulignant les injustices du système agricole irlandais géré par les Britanniques, expriment la compassion du peintre. Cette remise en cause de l’autorité gouvernementale au sein d’un genre artistique aussi normé que la peinture fut rendue possible par le style de Nicol, inspiré par les peintres hollandais du XVIIe siècle, par les tableaux de David Wilkie (1785-1841), par l’école écossaise et par celle du réalisme social, un courant qui exerça une grande influence sur la peinture narrative de Nicol. Cependant, le réalisme de sa peinture fut limité car l’artiste devait vendre ses toiles pour vivre. On tentera de cerner les motivations de Nicol, pour comprendre si elles sont liées à un goût particulier pour les stéréotypes, à sa compassion pour les Irlandais ou à ses ambitions commerciales. La circulation de ses œuvres dans des expositions locales et internationales était souvent facilitée par les marchands d’art qui investirent dans ses toiles pour les revendre, ou même les reproduire sous forme d’imprimés, qui furent produits par milliers entre les années 1850 et la mort de l’artiste, ce qui contribua à faire de Nicol un peintre majeur de son époque. / After a stay in Ireland between 1846 and 1850, the Scottish painter Erskine Nicol (1825-1904) represented the Irish in most of his artworks. He was particularly successful at the Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), and at the Royal Academy (London). This work investigates the reasons for his popularity, using methods that are mainly derived from cultural studies, and showing that Nicol adapted the scientific prejudices of his time, as well as the clichés on the Irish, in order to create his iconography of Ireland. Beyond his flattering portraits of Irish peasant girls, Nicol painted numerous caricatures suggesting that he complied with prevalent imperialist ideas. Yet, his paintings are ambivalent: a few canvases, highlighting the injustices generated by the British regulation of Ireland’s agricultural system, convey the painter’s compassion. This questioning of British authority through painting, a highly codified artistic genre, was enabled by Nicol’s style, inspired by the Dutch Old Masters, by the artworks of David Wilkie (1785-1841), by the Scottish School, and by social realism, an artistic movement which had an important influence on Nicol’s narrative painting. However, his realism was limited because he needed to sell his paintings to survive. This work will try to understand his motivations and to see if they were linked to his fondness for stereotypes, to his compassion for the Irish or to his commercial ambitions. The circulation of his artworks in local and international exhibitions was made easier by the work of art dealers, who invested in Nicol’s canvases and in their reproductions. Thus, thousands of prints reproducing his artworks between the 1850s and his death in 1904 made Nicol a major artist of the Victorian era.

Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) reçoit sa formation artistique en Espagne, puis dans l’atelier parisien du peintre Léon Cogniet, enfin à Rome. Ses premières grandes compositions religieuses lui apportent très tôt le succès, la renommée, les commandes de l’État, et ses scènes de genre italiennes ou orientalistes sont achetées par la clientèle privée. Vers le milieu des années 1870, il se tourne définitivement vers la peinture de portrait dans laquelle il remporte un immense succès faisant de lui, selon ses contemporains, l’un des plus grands portraitistes de son époque. Il peint les portraits des représentants de la classe dirigeante et fortunée française ou étrangère, en particulier américaine, jusqu’à la Première Guerre mondiale. Il pratique ce genre jusqu’à la fin de ses jours, laissant derrière lui, au-delà des portraits d’amis artistes ou de membres de sa famille, une exceptionnelle « galerie » des personnalités du moment, aristocrates, hommes politiques, grands bourgeois français et étrangers, dont quelques œuvres « iconiques » qui marquent la mémoire collective. / Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) received artistic training in Spain, then in the Parisian studio of the painter Léon Cogniet, and finally in Rome. His early large religious pictures quickly brought him success, fame, and State commissions, while his Italian and Orientalist genres scenes were purchased by private patrons. Around the middle of the 1870s he made a definitive turn toward portrait painting that became immensely successful and made him, according to his contemporaries, one of the greatest portraitists of the wealthy and ruling class in France or abroad, particularly in the United States, before the First World War. He practiced in this genre until the end of his life, leaving behind - except for the portraits of his artist friends and members of his family - an exceptional gallery of personalities of the time, primarily aristocrats, politicians, and French and foreign grands bourgeois, including several iconic works that mark the collective memory.

(in English) This thesis called Grave, Tombstone, Graveyard. The Range of Motifs of the Czech Painting of the 19th Century is based on the analysis of paintings, drawings and graphics made by Czech authors throughout the 19th century. Artists worked with funeral motifs in different ways and these will be presented in different case studies. Some painters were fascinated by these subjects and they turned their attention to them systematically and repeatedly throughout their career. Other artists worked with funeral motifs rarely, although significantly. Artists integrated motifs of graves, monuments and cemeteries to their pieces of art for different purposes; this was connected with the interest of Romanticism in aesthetic anomalies and mystery, with their personal experience and feelings. Artists were also interested in genre scenes that were situated in cemeteries. Funeral motifs can be found in illustrated journals as well. Their aim was to document the specific place and as to symbolically express the finality of the life. The pieces of art will be presented in the context of the burial rites and literature of the 19th century. This phenomenon was also reflected by foreign artists, some of them will be also mentioned in the thesis as an analogy to the Czech works.