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The Renaissance was largely driven by the renewed interest in classical learning, and was also the result of rapid economic development. At the beginning of the 16th century, Germany (referring to the lands contained within the Holy Roman Empire) was one of the most prosperous areas in Europe despite a relatively low level of urbanization compared to Italy or the Netherlands.
The German origins of Romanticism did not lead to an equally central position in the visual arts, but Germany´s contributions to the many broadly Modernist movements following the collapse of Academic art in the form of Expressionism, Dada, New Objectivity and Bauhaus played a major role in the emergence of modern art.
Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 ... Biedermeier – 1815 – 1848, Germany; Academic – c. 1840 ... Most modern art movements ...
[10] One of the best known practitioners of German Renaissance art was Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), whose fascination with classical ideas led him to Italy to study art. Both Gardner and Russell recognized the importance of Dürer's contribution to German art in bringing Italian Renaissance styles and ideas to Germany.
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance, this period became the German, French, English, Low Countries and Polish Renaissances, and in turn created other national and localized ...
See Art periods for a chronological list. This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in ...
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
1495: Hans Weiditz - German Renaissance woodcut artist (died 1536) 1496: Dirck Jacobsz – Dutch Renaissance painter (died 1567) 1496: Lu Zhi – Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (died 1576) 1497: Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style (died 1543)