The Reading Room (Hasenclever)
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| Artist | Johann Peter Hasenclever |
| Year | 1843 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Movement | Düsseldorf School |
| Dimensions | 71 cm × 100 cm (28 in × 39 in) |
| Location | Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
The Reading Room (German - Das Lesekabinett) is an 1843 painting by the Düsseldorf-based painter Johann Peter Hasenclever, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It shows a genre scene of middle-class men in a reading room, reflecting the political and cultural situation of the Vormärz period. A smaller copy is now in the Städtische Museum Remscheid (Haus Cleff in Remscheid-Hasten).
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