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How exceedingly abhorrent to me are our berouged puppet painters, cries the young Goethe, in his essay on German style and art,
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I could not sufficiently protest; they have caught the eyes of the women with theatrical poses, false complexions, and gaudy costumes; the wood engravings of manly old Albrecht Dürer, at whom tyros scoff, are more welcome to me.... Only where intimacy and simplicity exist is all artistic vigour to be found, and woe to the artist who leaves his hut to squander himself in academic halls of state.
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Entry of General Benigsen into Hamburg, 1814. He did good work too as a portrait painter. In his best picture,
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Goethe amongst the Ruins of Rome,