Liebe ist ewig : Roman by Wilhelm von Polenz
"Liebe ist ewig" by Wilhelm von Polenz is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on the adolescent Jutta Reimers in bourgeois Munich, tracing her secret bond with an aging painter and the tensions it creates within her family’s world of business, education, and propriety. Themes of art versus life, innocence and influence, and the shaping of a young woman’s identity drive the narrative. The opening of the novel
follows Jutta as she escapes her domineering brother Eberhard’s makeshift “laboratory” to visit Herr von Weischach, a former officer turned painter who reveres her as his muse. Their sessions, full of flattery and artistic plans (notably a Harpist-and-Mignon tableau), crumple when he pivots to a different, more symbolic canvas that offends her vanity, prompting her to flee. She avoids him; he grows gravely ill, and after a brief, painful visit, he dies, leaving Jutta to view his body in the public mortuary with Eberhard. Parallel scenes sketch her father Reimers’s jovial yet evasive nature, his partnership with the austere Knorrig, and news of the favored son’s troubles overseas. When an auction of the painter’s estate reveals multiple images of Jutta, her father confronts her and installs cousin Vally Habelmayer as a chaperone, closing this first movement of secret awakenings and abrupt loss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Polenz, Wilhelm von, 1861-1903 |
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| Title | Liebe ist ewig : Roman |
| Original Publication | Berlin: F. Fontane & Co., 1904. |
| Credits | Richard Illner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | German fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78125 |
| Release Date | Mar 6, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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