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While the Alte National-galerie in Berlin is closed for renovations, a substantial part of its holdings are on view in the National Gallery in London in an exhibition entitled Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, from March 7 until May 13. The show will then be at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from June 10 to September 3. It comprises about seventy-five works by nineteenth- and early twentieth- century artists chosen to show both the development of German art in that period and the taste of the institutional collector.
In effect the majority of the show charts the development of German nineteenth-century painting, beginning with Caspar David Friedrich and his romantic depictions of the German landscape based on his precise observation of nature. The show also highlights the work of the Nazarenes, formed by six art students in Vienna in l809 to invest modern painting with the purity of ...