Publisher's Synopsis
This fifth volume in the series of catalogues devoted to the Ashmolean Museum's collection of drawings, treats all of the 19th-century drawings by German, Austrian, and Swiss artists, most of which were bequeathed to the Museum in 1954 by Dr Grete Ring. Nearly 200 drawings (by major artists including Friedrich, Runge, the Nazarenes, Schwind, Menzel, Feuerbach, and Liebermann) are the subject of detailed discussion and brief biographical outlines are provided of each of the artists represented.;This book should be of interest to art historians, Germanists, curators of drawings, dealers and auctioneers, collectors and specialist art librarians.