Rössler 2016
“Die Aktualitäten des Hieronymus Bosch – Stationen wissenschaftlicher und künstlerischer Wiederentdeckung 1822-1950” (Johannes Rössler) 2016
[in: Stephan Kemperdick et al., Hieronymus Bosch und seine Bildwelt im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert – Für die Gemäldegalerie und das Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen herausgegeben. Exhibition catalogue (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie und Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 11th November 2016 – 19th February 2017), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz-Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin-Petersberg, 2016, pp. 38-53]
In the eighteenth century interest in Bosch was at a low point, but this slowly changed in the nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century interest reached a new peak. Both the Classicist and Romantic conceptions of art (18th-19th century) had (mainly aesthetic) objections against the art of Bosch. Later authors paid more attention to cultural history and began to appreciate Bosch again. Rössler writes about the approaches to Bosch of Heinrich Gustav Hotho (1802-1873), Carl Justi (1832-1912), Hermann Dolmayr (1865-1900), Gustav Glück (1871-1952), Ludwig von Baldass (1887-1963), Max J. Friedländer (1867-1958), Kurt Pfister (1895-1951), Walter Schürmeyer (1889-1976), Charles de Tolnay (1899-1981), and Wilhelm Fraenger (1890-1964). Attention is also paid to modern artists who were inspired by Bosch such as Max Beckmann, Alfred Kubin, George Grosz, and the Surrealists Ernst, Miró, and Dali.
[explicit 22nd February 2018]
