Gothic Church Behind an Oak Grove with Tombs

Museum record 147622: Gothic Church Behind an Oak Grove with Tombs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Architect, painter, and printmaker Karl Friedrich Schinkel understood Gothic architecture as a fusion between universal Christianity and German genius. The combination here of vernacular Gothic architecture and a grand oak tree symbolizing Teutonic strength—as well as the medium of lithography itself, which had recently been invented in Munich by Alois Senefelder—infuses the print with a particularly nationalistic significance. This patriotism is all the more pointed given Germany’s military defeat at th…