Discusses the formation and early history of the Verbindung deutscher Kunstvereine für historische Kunst, and its goals in commissioning in 1857 the two works by Menzel (Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie) and Schwind (Kiel, Kunsthalle). Comments on the choice and political significance of the historical subjects depicted by the artists, and on the critical reception of the paintings, in particular by the writer Max Schasler, who called attention to Schwind's extreme idealism in contrast to Menzel's extreme realism.
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