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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9431011, member: 2844&quot;]Thank you for your comments everyone, and thank you for looking.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As Bakers said, the Pennsylvania Dutch were actually Pennsylvania Deutsch, not Nederlands.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> They came from Germany, including Alsace, and from Switzerland. Being of Central European origin, they brought the tradition of Central European &quot;Bauernmalerei&quot; with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dutch folk painting is more constrained than Central European Bauernmalerei. And where Bauernmalerei was a more rural thing, Bauer means farmer, Dutch folk painting was done mostly in towns, expecially the rich commercial centres, including Amsterdam. It is called folk painting, but most of it was done by painters hired by furniture manufacturers. Painting covered the lesser, cheaper woods like pine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Floral painting is traditionally European, but there are stylistic differences, as well as differences in the social backgrounds of the painters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, there was a link between the Pennsylvania Dutch and Friesland, but that was a spiritual one, not a cultural one: They followed the teachings of a Dutch Frisian preacher called Menno Simonsz. Hence the term Mennonites for one important group. Menno is a Frisian first name.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would be a form of German, probably having roots in Alsace or Switzerland. I understand the importance, it had to be true to his faith.</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t Antiquers if a thread doesn&#039;t go off track.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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