Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
The demand to inculcate young Germans in a modern and German-nationalist spirit rather than the traditional reverence for classical antiquity emanated from no lesser person than Wilhelm II in 1890. But the previously little-examined backstage of reformed professional education and decision-making in lesser civil-service offices, private schools and impersonal art markets were real driving forces for change, including the embrace of what we call modernism.
Publication Title
Françoise Forster-Hahn (ed.), Imagining Modern German Culture, 1889-1910, Special Issue of Studies in the History of Art (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996), 37-51.
Recommended Citation
McClelland, Charles E.. ""Young Germans, not Young Greeks and Romans": Art, Culture and Educational Reform in Wilhelmine Germany." Françoise Forster-Hahn (ed.), Imagining Modern German Culture, 1889-1910, Special Issue of Studies in the History of Art (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996), 37-51. (1996). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_fsp/1
