A friend sent me this link some weeks ago – it is a fun romp through specialty terms in German… most people younger than I would probably be unfamiliar with several of these. Not sure how many not trained or interested in art would know any of them.

https://www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-6-german-art-terms-you-should-know

Here is the short version:

Wunderkammer – curiosity cabinet

 

Gesamtkunstwerk – total art work (really “enveloping you in its entirety”)

(Cafe at the Venice Biennale)

Gestalt – form or more likely figure – often misunderstood in the context of psychology….

Kunstwollen – the rarest of these terms – art will – but one of the most interesting, coined in the 1890s in Austria. It’s a political call for autonomous realms of art, freedom for art, but also often read as an expression of a particular’s time era’s or nation’s style.  A kind of Zeitgeist, then.

Einfühlung – empathy, a term used in art history to pave the way for an understanding of abstract expressionist art

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   Engram – a word for the assumed entity that stores personal or collective memory in the brain, as if there’s a representational slide. Hm. My research area was memory. No engrams found. No homunculus in there either, who directs the show…..
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