Painting Darwinism in 19th Cent. Germany by Alexandra Karl, Ph.D

Lecture by Alexandra Karl which considers how German painters such as Arnold Böcklin, Leo Putz and Franz von Stuck were impacted by the Darwinian revolution in the 19th Century. By imagining scenes from deep time and evolutionary scenarios, the resulting works on canvas rendered subjects so uncanny, they found no paralleled among their contemporaries in Europe. Specifically, their depictions of the "Tiermensch" and various other hybrids attempted to imagine Darwinian Man and the Animal-in-Man.