''The Reading Room'' (German - ''Das Lesekabinett'') is an 1843 painting by the
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...
-based painter
Johann Peter Hasenclever
Johann Peter Hasenclever (18 May 1810, Remscheid - 16 December 1853, Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Life and work
His father, also named Johann Peter Hasenclever (1784–1864), was a t ...
, 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
' (; English: ''pre-March'') was a period in the history of Germany preceding the 1848 March Revolution in the states of the German Confederation. The beginning of the period is less well-defined. Some place the starting point directly after the ...
period. A smaller copy is now in the Städtische Museum Remscheid (Haus Cleff in Remscheid-Hasten).
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category:German paintings
Paintings in the Alte Nationalgalerie