What’s that for? The painting “The Holy Family” by Paul von Joukowsky

England has the Windsors – Germany the Wagners: Richard Wagner and his descendants have always met with especial veneration. A particular example of this is the painting “The Holy Family” by Paul von Joukowsky from the year 1881, which can currently be seen on loan in the exhibition “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling”. Sven Friedrich, director of the Richard Wagner Museum, from whose collection the painting comes, describes the idolising mythification of the Wagner family.