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- Title
A HUNDRED YEARS OF PAINTING OF THE SAXONS IN ROMANIA 1880-1980. AN OVERVIEW.
- Authors
MESEA, Iulia
- Abstract
Following centuries of evolution, at the end of the nineteenth and during the twentieth century the artistic life of the Transylvanian German community was complex and fluctuating. It alternated moments of effervescence and vitality with stages of stagnation, dramatic increase or decrease in the number of representatives, synchronisation with the European artistic phenomena, or isolation, either asserting its inherited characteristics or melting in the larger frame of the artistic life in Romania. It evolved in the traditionally asserted "enclaves" even after 1918 with Sibiu and Braşov as its main centres, so that even assimilating the same conceptual and stylistic tendencies of the time, it still bore not only the personal touch of the artist, but also the regional ethnic mark of the area in which it flourished, which conceived the complex, diverse and charming image of art in this geo-cultural area. German art preserved its distinct, albeit not, separate profile, as part of the artistic phenomenon of the larger area, playing an important part in the context of the Central European cultural space and in the import of fresh influences coming directly from the German space with which it had been historically connected. During the interwar period, the group of ethnic Germans coagulated at national level. Following the years of fascist ideologization, after 1947, a painful process started for art throughout the country, attenuating and losing the individuality of group, ethnic and regional features.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; PAINTING; SAXONS
- Publication
Acta Musei Brukenthal, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 2, p429
- ISSN
1842-2691
- Publication type
Article