Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the German Arts and Crafts at the Universal Exposition: St. Louis, 1904<br><br>There is an inspiring contrast between the art of the eighteenth century in its dignified grandeur and full maturity and the young art of the twentieth century working along the same lines of artistic effort to accomplish what the artist of the last centuries so signally compassed. In their external form they may differ but at heart they are one in artistic feeling and like all truly artistic creations their influence will never wane.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.