Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region
Tensions between Nationalism and Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century
Wolfgang Cortjaens (Editor), Jan De Maeyer (Editor), Tom Verschaffel (Editor),
Based on the cultural insight that ‘historism’ – understood as the projection of the past into the present by artistic means, or the ‘invention of tradition’ – always occurs in close connection with the emergence of nation states, this volume describes for the first time the cultural and denominational character and development of the Maas-Rhine region during the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Seventeen contributions shed new and revealing light on the cultural identity of this Catholic-dominated core region of Europe, using the defining term ‘historism’ as the historiographical element that unifies the book’s four sections (Social and Church Historical Context, The Organisational Structure of Ecclesiastical Art, Centres of Art, ‘Grenzgänger’: between Theory and Praxis).
An Upside-down World. Regional Identity as a Catalyst for the Development of the Modern Nation-States. An Introduction
Verkehrte Welt. Regionale Identität als Katalysator moderner Nationenbildung. Eine Einführung
Wolfgang Cortjaens, Jan De Maeyer & Tom Verschaffel
1. SOCIAL AND CHURCH HISTORICAL CONTEXT/GESELLSCHAFTLICHER UND KIRCHENHISTORISCHER KONTEXT
Nationale Katholizismen, die (kirchen-)politische Situation und die grenzüber-schreitende Kommunikation im Raum Rhein-Mosel-Maas zwischen 1815 und dem Ende der Kulturkampfzeit
Bernhard Schneider
In Search of the Greatest Specificity. Some Observations on Regionalism
Tom Verschaffel
Modelllandschaft Rhein-Maas? Topographische und kulturpolitische Ordnungskrite-rien in der preußischen Kunstgeschichte des Vormärz: Karl Schnaase, Franz Kugler und Franz Mertens und die Konstruktion nationaler und regionaler ‘Schulen’
Wolfgang Cortjaens
Die Sprachverhältnisse in Niederländisch-Limburg, unter besonderer Berück-sichtigung der kirchlichen Amtssprache
Antoine Jacobs
2. THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ECCLESIASTICAL ART /ORGANISATIONSSTRUKTUREN KIRCHLICHER KUNST
The Aid Societies of the Cologne Cathedral Construction Society in the Area of Today’ s Euregion Meuse-Rhine
Wolfgang Cortjaens & Klaus Hardering
Pro Arte Christiana. Catholic Art Guilds, Gothic Revival and the Cultural Identity of the Rhine-Meuse Region
Jan De Maeyer
Kirchenschätze des Rhein-Maas-Gebietes im 19. Jahrhundert. Historisierung und Präsentation mittelalterlicher Goldschmiedekunst im Kontext medialer Aneignung
Wolfgang Cortjaens
3. CENTRES OF ART / KUNSTZENTREN
The Workshop Cuypers/Stoltzenberg. Its Beginnings (°1852) and its Consequences for the Development of Roermond as a Centre of Arts
Lidwien Schiphorst
Roermond as Centre for Religious Art
Antoine Jacobs & Wies van Leeuwen
Die Utrechter neugotische Schule. Nationale Bestrebungen, grenzüberschreitende Wirkung
Arjen Looyenga
Sprache des Materials, Politik der Form. Der katholische Kirchenbau in den linksrheinischen Teilen der preußischen Rheinprovinz und im Rhein-Maas-Gebiet 1815-1914
Wolfgang Cortjaens
Die Entwicklung Kevelaers zum katholischen Kunstzentrum im 19. Jahrhundert. Kulturkampf und Kunst, Wallfahrt und Wirtschaft
Peter Lingens
Dismantlement or Reformulation? The Dialectic of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Liège
Jean-Patrick Duchesne & Isabelle Graulich
4. ‘GRENZGÄNGER’: PROTAGONISTS OF INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE /GRENZGÄNGER: INTERREGIONALER AUSTAUSCH IN THEORIE UND PRAXIS
Der Architekt und Bauhistoriker Lambert von Fisenne (1852-1903). Grenzenloser Historismus
Antoine Jacobs
Reinhold Vasters (1827-1909), an Aachen Catholic and Forger. Ecclesiastical and Sacral Goldsmiths’ Art for Church and Commerce
Miriam Krautwurst August Reichensperger (1808-1895), the Journeys abroad of an Art Theorist and Politician
Udo Liessem
Der Maler Jules Helbig (1821-1906), ein Grenzgänger zwischen Rhein und Maas
Anna Bergmans
Bibliography /Bibliographie
Index
'... een buitengewoon informatieve en fraai geïllustreerde bundel...'
Lodewijk Winkeler (Nijmegen), Trajecta Jrg. 18, 2009, aflevering 2
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