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Excerpt from The Arts Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers: Being the Substance of the Rhind Lectures for 1909 It is now recognized that in the older days art was not as in modern times a luxury, a mere adjunct to life, but was the expression of national and religious feeling, and as such was closely related to the act ivity of peoples in the practical and the intellectual spheres. It is not pretended that the early German art dealt with in this book was a full and adequate expression of what may be termed the Teutonic genius. For such an expression we have to look onward to the Gothic movement of the twelfth cen tury; but it will at any rate be shown in what follows that the art with which we are here concerned was a national art, a genuine expression, though in a somewhat crude and tentative fashion, of Teutonic feeling. Furthermore it must be noted that the forms and processes developed in this early period did not die out, but were taken up into the later Rom anesque, to which they supplied elements of sub stantial importance. No study of European art in general can be complete without taking into account this early manifestation of the artistic spirit on the part of the race that has made modern Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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