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| | The Seven Sacraments Haus der Kunst Munchen - Pressrelease |
 | | Genre paintings, in particular those of interior scenes, focus on domestic life and separate what society regarded as 'typical' activities from the many daily tasks. |
 | | These, however, are not mere documentations of life in the home, but rather the representation of moral archetypes and the socially determined role of women, who are portrayed sewing, embroidering, peeling fruit, combing children' hair, plucking chickens or cleaning fish. |
 | | The portrayed scenes of family, which are associated, in the broadest sense, with care and security, have, on the one hand, a warm and at times bourgeois character and, thorough their aesthetic quality, a cool, sterile and detached character on the other. |
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