Heimatkunst

…the nationalistic outlook of the Heimatkunst (“Homeland Art”) movement, which took Swiss and German rural life as its subject in novels and literary sketches. His novels include Der heilige Franz von Assisi (1908; “Saint Francis of Assisi”), Lachweiler Geschichten (1911; “Lachweil Stories”), Berge und Menschen (1911; “Mountains and Men”), Sisto…

…was the foremost exponent of Heimatkunst (regionalism) in German fiction.

…of the contributors to the Heimatkunst (“homeland”) movement—a literature striving for the reproduction of the life and atmosphere of the provinces. His realistic prose, though conventional, shows insight into the daily life of the Alpine people.