Usage Note
Kunstgattung is a broad category of art such as painting, sculpture, architecture, or printmaking. Within each Kunstgattung there are further subdivisions (e.g. Historienmalerei, Porträt). Feminine noun.
Examples
"Die Skulptur gilt als eigenständige Kunstgattung, die sich von der Malerei grundlegend unterscheidet."
Natural Translation
Sculpture is regarded as an independent art genre that fundamentally differs from painting.
Literal Translation
The sculpture is considered as independent art-genre, which from painting fundamentally differs.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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