Conversation with Birgit Aschmann: The German Love for Nature β Just a Myth?
Historian Birgit Aschmann discusses the German reverence for nature, contrasting it with the historical context of nature's portrayal and manipulation in the 19th century.
Interview with Birgit Aschmann: The German Love for Nature - Just a Myth?
Historian Birgit Aschmann discusses the simultaneous emergence of German reverence and destruction of nature during the 19th century, as exemplified by Caspar David Friedrich's romantic paintings and the rectification of the Rhine river.