Немецкая скульптура 1900-1950 гг.

In Russian scientific literature, the theme of the fine arts of Germany in the late 19th - first half of the 20th century remains virtually uncovered, although interest in German artistic culture has always been noted in Russia since the time of N. Karamzin and V. Zhukovsky. We have to state with regret that the obscure domestic tradition of not noticing German architects, painters and sculptors next to the names of Goethe and Schiller, Hegel and Schopenhauer, Beethoven and Wagner, Nietzsche and Brecht (or noticing, but as a secondary material of European culture) is still alive since. At the time of I.S. Turgenev, V.V. Stasov and A.N. Benois, a snobbish posture could have an effect in such a relationship, after October 1917 - the notorious "Marxist" ideological background. In a number of our consolidated scientific works on the history of foreign art, until recently, one could come across accusations of the reactionary nature of the Jena school of romantics at the turn of the 11th-19th centuries, the "Nazarene" school of painting (the first ...