In the late summer and autum of 1981 (August 1 to October
11) an exhibition of German Masters of the Nineteenth Century was on display
at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Assembled from public and private
collections in the Federal Republic of Germany, this was the largest exhibition
of German art ever to be shown in North America. To celebrate the occasion and
to highlight the art, a wide variety of events - lectures, symposia, films,
ancillary exhibitions, concerts, and courses - were organized in the Toronto
area. At the University of Toronto, from October 6 to 10, a symposium took place
entitled “Nineteenth-Century Germany” in which scholars from Canada,
the United States, and the Federal Republic participated. It is a number of
the papers presented at this symposium that are published in this volume.
To the participants in the conference; to the faculty of arts and science of
the University of Toronto, particularly to Professor Peter Harris; to the Goethe
Institute in Toronto and its director, Dr. Helmut Liede; and to the Consulate
General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto must go special acknowledgement
for their efforts in making the symposium possible.
The publication of this volume has been aided by a generous grant from the Goethe
Institute in Munich.
The editors
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