Princes, Counts and Racists
David Blackbourn: Weimar, 19 May 2016
Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,978 0 300 17056 6 Show More
by Michael Kater.
Yale, 463 pp., £25, August 2014,
“... Arnold Böcklin, two of the first teachers at the painting academy established by Grand Duke Carl Alexander, would later become major artists, but both left within a few years, repelled by the philistinism of local notables and the formality of the court. A generation later the 25-year-old Richard Strauss was hired, but like others before him felt blocked by ... ”