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“Bayern, mein Heimatland”: Heimat and the Forging of a Bavarian Identity in the Age of Romanticism

Joshua W. Stein HIST-491-01: Research December 15, 2017

King Maximilian II’s Journey

Thesis

This paper argues that through the ideas of Heimat and Romantic Nationalism as apparent in landscape paintings, Bavarian Royal Officials and members of the Bavarian upper class intentionally created a unique cultural identity that differed from its surrounding neighbors between the years of 1805 and 1900. More specifically, grounded in an analysis of landscape paintings, I argue that such an identity emerged based on the incorporation of local differences and in opposition to Prussian and Austrian identities.

Historiography

What is Heimat?

Why Create a Bavarian Identity?

Prussian Aggression French Revolution Austrian Separatism

König Max II. und Königin Marie auf der Alm by Philipp von Foltz, 1858.

Mountains

Romantic Nationalism King Maximillian II & Queen Marie

Romantic Nationalism King Maximilian II & Queen Marie

Winter in Ramsau by Heinrich Bürkel, 1847-1850.

Religion

Agriculture

Evening Landscape by Max Joseph Wagenbauer, 1821.

Painting an Identity

Conclusion

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