Realism Abroad

Britain and Europe

Realism in Britain, Germany and Russia

Painters across Europe took up modern life and working people, each in their own way: moral storytelling in Britain, close detail in Germany, social witness in Russia.

• Britain: work, emigration, poverty and the railway
• Germany: the factory, the village church, a mocked debut
• Russia: the haulers and the returning exile

Works in this part

• Work
• The Last of England
• Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
• The Railway Station
• The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes)
• Three Women in Church
• Women Plucking Geese
• Barge Haulers on the Volga
• They Did Not Expect Him

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