Gefühl, Bild Und Form : Bohlau : 9783412519582 : 3412519588 : 15 Feb 2021 : The mémoire as a term and concept is omnipresent in the 19th century. Its network of meanings is multifaceted, as it extends equally into discourses about psyche, identity, perception, imagination and conception - discourses in which painting also participates. For the first time, the meaning of the term mémoire is now being developed for painting, whereby its role in the historical understanding of imagery, feeling and form comes into focus. Based on the French painter Édouard Vuillard, the The present work explores the discourse on mémoire, in which art criticism, psychology and painting often work together surprisingly. Painting according to the mémoire proves to be an aesthetic strategy of image creation, in which visual form becomes inseparable from affective and temporal contents.