Liebe ist ewig : Roman by Wilhelm von Polenz
"Liebe ist ewig" by Wilhelm von Polenz is a novel written in the late 19th century. It appears to be a coming-of-age and social study centered on Jutta Reimers, a precocious schoolgirl in a prosperous Munich household, whose secret bond with an older painter unsettles the family’s comfortable routines. Framed by contrasts between bourgeois discipline and bohemian art, it explores innocence, awakening, and the pressures of propriety through Jutta, her ambitious brother
Eberhard, their genial but inattentive father, and the artist von Weischach. The opening of the novel introduces the Reimers family: Eberhard tyrannizes his younger sister Jutta in his makeshift “laboratory,” while their frequently traveling father avoids unpleasantness at home. Jutta slips away to the attic studio of Herr von Weischach, a former officer turned painter who idolizes her as his muse and wavers between grand plans and self-doubt; she revels in his attention and the illicit glamour of the atelier. A lively dinner with the father’s business partner Knorrig reveals wider family tensions, including a troubling letter about the elder son Kurt’s illness abroad, while Jutta secretly embroiders a gift for the painter and drifts at school between brilliance and carelessness. When Weischach abandons his planned “Harfner und Mignon” portrait and instead paints a symbolic scene inspired by Jutta, she feels betrayed and breaks away; he falls gravely ill, she visits his bedside in fear and confusion, and he dies soon after. The household then views his body at the cemetery, his effects are auctioned, and Jutta’s father, alarmed to discover how closely his daughter figured in the artist’s work, brings cousin Vally into the home as Jutta’s companion and guard. (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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