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Wilhelm Gentz
Karl Wilhelm Gentz was a German painter.
Karl Wilhelm Gentz was the second child of the businessman Johann Christian Gentz. Initially enrolled at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University, he decided to study painting when he was 21 years old. He attended the renowned Atelier Kloeber and in 1845 studied for nine months at the Antwerp Academy of Art, after which he went via London to the art metropolis Paris in 1846. There he entered Paul Delaroche's student studio, which was then under the direction of Charles Gleyre. In 1847 he traveled to Spain and Morocco. In February 1848 he returned to Paris, where he painted The Prodigal Son in the Desert, a life-size figure. In 1850 he then went to Egypt and Sinai via Marseille and Malta. His way back took him through Asia Minor, the Greek archipelago, Constantinople and Vienna.
In 1852 he lived temporarily in Berlin. It was there that his first pictures of oriental life were created: the slave market and the Egyptian school. Not satisfied with this, Gentz went back to Paris and this time joined Thomas Couture's atelier. During this time he painted two religious pictures with life-size figures, Christ and Magdalena with Simon and Christ among the tax collectors.
Back in Berlin in 1858, he created a long series of or
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The King’s Son Enters Jerusalem
I have been working on European history in the later nineteenth century, and specifically the role of religious and apocalyptic ideas in shaping real-world politics in in that supposedly modern and technological age. I’ll be doing several posts on that topic in coming weeks, but let me just introduce the theme here. What I have to say is highly appropriate for the Palm Sunday weekend.
Even at the end of the nineteenth century, European elites were much more deeply immersed in messianic, millenarian and apocalyptic ideas than we commonly give them credit for, and those beliefs had still greater resonance among ordinary people. Contrary to stereotype, we easily find the strong survival in that era of “medieval” religious ideas that we often dismiss as long extinct. Those ideas emerged, for instance, in attitudes towards Islam, and “crusader” rhetoric was much in evidence in attitudes towards the Ottoman Empire. It is not surprising then that the language of holy war and crusade was still so powerful during the First World War era, a theme I addressed in my 2014 book The Great and Holy War.
Still, only a century ago, Christian Europe still had a lively ideology of holy war.
Just as a sample of these trends, I offer a celebrated German p
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