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The Reading Room (Hasenclever)

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1843 painting by Johann Peter Hasenclever
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The Reading Room
ArtistJohann Peter Hasenclever
Year1843
Mediumoil on canvas
MovementDüsseldorf School
Dimensions71 cm × 100 cm (28 in × 39 in)
LocationAlte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The Reading Room (German - Das Lesekabinett) is an 1843 painting by the Düsseldorf-based painter Johann Peter Hasenclever, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It shows a genre scene of middle-class men in a reading room, reflecting the political and cultural situation of the Vormärz period. A smaller copy is now in the Städtische Museum Remscheid (Haus Cleff in Remscheid-Hasten).


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