Kalenberg Farm Family; Adolf Wissel, 1939
- Christian/moral family with multiple children and marital chastity
- permanence and eternal
- culture not only the visible, but found within clothing, landscape, social forms, etc.
- "Aryan sameness" (pg 119, Michaud)
- "racially pure" - "did not mirror society but served as role models for it" (optional reading - no page numbers)
- interlacing of all German families, racial sameness, connects others into this image
- repetitive representations of the future - becoming the normative
- historical connection to the land -- national pride and attachment to/from land
- timelessness, and nostalgia (golden tones throughout painting)
- stability of family life, family as role models
- folk attire showing heritage of "German" - (contrasted against eternal future with children icons) past to future reflects the temporality within Nazi paintings
- What is the difference between "realistic" and "realism"?
- How can something so detailed and specific represent the masses? Shouldn't it be more generalized?
