Actually Rudolf Schäfer (1878-1961) painter known only as a church ( http://www.kirchenlexikon.de/s/s1/ schaefer_r_s_o.shtml ) and today more or less forgotten, because his works have to exhibit some really religious substance to convey the Biedermeier rather hypocritical puritanical Christianity of the ruling bourgeois society in 1900. By 1900, when in fact the true religion in the painted images of the painter of Art Nouveau and then put the avant-garde expressionism, Artists such as shepherd, still in the spirit of the Biedermeier. Especially with so-called religious issues then this art seemed painfully corny, although it was made often well crafted. In particular, one should ask: Cui bono (Who benefits)? In the case of Rudolf Schaefer served his art reactionary social forces, particularly the then Protestant churches, which state churches were and are clearly on the side of the ruling bourgeois and aristocratic classes were, indeed part of the social German suppression system were, this system so far served by raised it with the exploited masses humility and servitude subjects, Biedermeier abforderten them piety, this pleasing to God than were holding out, and thus the masses of revolutionary action. In this respect, was the German shepherd art reaction and is really from a Christian perspective reject today, especially since this art in the 3rd Rich by their petty-bourgeois Germano served the Nazis. While honest Christian art was condemned as degenerate, this art fit very well in the reactionary world view of the Nazis.
Why am I still an early work of Rudolf Schaefer imagine here, is because that the above solution works (from around 1907 - 1910) I still like it, because there is no hypocritical piety breathes, but purely and simply human, and this in a positive way. brought "grandfather and grandmother," etchings by Rudolf Schaefer in the known art Solution Edition (image maps for the German House) of the foundation's publishing Potsdam in several editions with the crowd, touched me, although I am aware of the idealization and knows that the reality of even bourgeois life in 1900 was not as positive as shown in the drawings. As shown by Rudolf Schäfer grandfather and grandmother, then one, but it still Grandma and Grandpa in front of the time and ideally wished that their own ancestors have been such Would be where the grandchildren were delighted at the door, eat with flowers in their hands, where they are the tasty pot pie looked forward to the coffee table of the grandparents may, where they were allowed to grandfather assist in the flower garden, a garden with a beautiful pavilion and beautifully blooming roses, where they often saw his grandfather and grandmother on her bench in the garden to rest and where they were allowed to sit in the evening to the grandmother about it and read stories to them or where they told of their lives. Rudolf Schaefer's title "It used to be" touched a like a whisper through their own ancestors time.
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