GERMAN ART AT TAFT MUSEUM SEPT. 7

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CINCINNATI, OHIO — As the city prepares to celebrate its German heritage with Oktoberfest, the Taft Museum of Art offers “Romanticism to Post-Impressionism: Nineteenth Century German Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum,” on view September 7–November 4.

Gothic architecture, contemporary literature, and the landscape became new sources of inspiration for Romantic artists. Included are works by Philipp Otto Runge, Josef Anton Koch, Caspar David Friedrich, Adolf von Menzel, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Franz von Lenbach, Max Liebermann, Max Klinger and Käthe Kollwitz.

This exhibition traces the developments that shaped the course of German art during a time of great national change. German immigration and German American cross-cultural exchange helped to shape the cultures of both Cincinnati and Milwaukee during the Nineteenth Century.

The exhibition traces the development of German art by featuring 79 prints, drawings, watercolors and paintings from the Milwaukee Art Museum, which holds one of the premier collections of this material in the United States.

The Taft Museum of Art is downtown at 316 Pike Street. For information, 513-241-0343 or www.taftmuseum.org.