This article assesses the public resonance of private artistic taste in England, and the role of German art expert and museum director Gustav Friedrich Waagen in the transition from privately-owned collections to the concept of art as belonging to the nation. Particularly attracted to England and to...

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1. Verfasser:	Oléron Evans, Émilie (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[2018]
Schlagworte:	Waagen, Gustav Friedrich > 1794-1868 Kulturerbe Kunst Kunstsammler Nationalbewusstsein Privatsammlung England
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Zusammenfassung:	This article assesses the public resonance of private artistic taste in England, and the role of German art expert and museum director Gustav Friedrich Waagen in the transition from privately-owned collections to the concept of art as belonging to the nation. Particularly attracted to England and to what he described as its "treasures of art," he published a catalogue in 1837 entitled Kunstwerke und Künstler in England und Paris (Works of Art and Artists in England and Paris), the first attempt at a comprehensive scholarly survey of major art collections, both private and public, which was translated in English in 1854–57 as Treasures of Art in Great Britain. By inviting a foreign art historian into their homes, wealthy art collectors symbolically granted public access to the artworks in their possession through the "imaginary museum" that he was assembling, while simultaneously asserting their ownership of these objects with which their name was associated.
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ISSN:	1543-1002