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The article deals with Albrecht Duerer's relations to Eastern Europe - direct and indirect dealings of the Nuremberg based artist with artists and patrons from Poland and Prussia to Hungary and Romania. The essay is intended merely as an introduction to the topic and to some of the issues the subject raises, for example Nuremberg's international business ties, direct links to Eastern European patrons...
The article offers information on the exhibition The 200 Years of the Fine Arts Academy Munich and the resulting extensive publication (589 pp.), both organized and published in 2008. It concentrates on the role of the academy in pursuing artistic progress in 19th century painting with a specific stress put on contacts with the environment in Eastern Europe (e.g. painters Mihaly Munkacsy, Laszlo Mednaszky).
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