!!!Heimatkunstbewegung

Heimatkunst Movement: literary movement of "local colourists" 
idealising the home country ("Heimat"), farming and rural life and 
advocating it as an alternative to modern civilisation. Inspired by 
developments in Germany (F. Lienhard), the movement was opposed to the 
urban literary scene and the literary movements of symbolism and 
decadent literature. As the so-called "Los-von-Wien" (= "break away 
from Vienna") movement, it turned against the "cliquism" of the 
"Junges Wien" movement. Discussion of the idea of Heimatkunst was 
initiated by H. Bahr in his weekly magazine "Die Zeit". As a 
consequence, P. Rosegger, F. v. Gagern, H. and R. Greinz advocated a 
"return to the province". The ground for this support of the "eternal 
values" of nature, landscape and tradition had been prepared by the 
works of A. Stifter, A. Pichler, P. Rosegger, F. M. Felder, L. 
Anzengruber, F. v. Saar and M. v. Ebner-Eschenbach and 
others ( Heimatliteratur).

!Literature
K.-H. Rossbacher, Heimatkunstbewegung und Heimatroman, 
1975.


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