erfunden

09:55 Aug 30, 2012 

I guess I'm just old-fashioned. :)

22:01 Aug 29, 2012 

with "admirable" - otherwise it sounds as if you're being sarcastic :)

21:37 Aug 29, 2012 

Though your knowledge and research on the specific artist is helpful and adorable we will have to bear in mind that the original passage is a quote.
Though re-discovered / recast may be right by todays art historical evaluation it is clearly not the word and mindset of the author. He or she does not mention re-invent . He/she is pointing out the regional importance implicating a judgement here (as if to say : oh those were just provincial players and no high art then ). So I feel any term beginning with "re" is not quite appropriate and close enough to the original here. Erfunden is quite a special and rather unusual word to choose in this context, probably even owed to the speakers origin and times he lived in.

16:18 Aug 29, 2012 

Hans von Marées and his oeuvre was not invented, gewissermaßen or otherwise, for this show.

15:11 Aug 29, 2012 

or Expressionist art:

Seinerzeit in seinem selbstquälerischen Vollkommenheitsstreben unverstanden, das ihn immer wieder zu Übermalungen veranlasste, wurde er erst nach der Jahrhundertwende − zum Teil auch mit Missdeutungen wie z. B. in nationalsozialistischer Zeit − als Wegbereiter einer modernen figurativen Ausdruckskunst erkannt.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Marées

This was the book that led to this re-evaluation and the exhibition in question: Julius Meier-Graefe, Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst, Vergleichende Betrachtung der bildenden Künste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik. 3 vols. Verlag Julius Hofmann, Stuttgart 1904, followed by his 3-vol. work on von Marées himself (though that was slightly later - 1909-10.).

15:03 Aug 29, 2012 

in that sense, one could argue that Hans von Marées's significance or position as an artist was 'created' for this exhibition, posthumously of course.

15:00 Aug 29, 2012 

This was about creating a history for German art in the 19th century. So it means that these artists and their careers/output were/was instrumentalised to produce this history, and presumably links were made and parallels drawn that had not been in anyone's minds before, not least the artists concerned. Hans von Marées's work was suddenly accorded more significance than had been the case before. This was due in many respects to Hugo von Tschudi: http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/tschudih.htm and certain key art critics at the time. There is nothing wrong with this process. It was really just a re-evaluation of what had happened and a re-instrumentalisation of the past for the purposes of the creation of a Germany historical narrative, where one had not existed before. Such things go on all the time!

14:52 Aug 29, 2012 

"reinvented"?