The term was used as early as 1856, in the English translation of a German work on recent religious history.

Wagner's goal, by contrast, was to create something far more weighty and substantial - nothing less than a German national work of art.

He might know something about the German work as well as about what's happening here.

Modernism in photography was less a national than an international phenomenon, but the German work was perhaps the most striking.

- German standard work; partially obsolete, but still useful.

He saw the German work for the first time once more, "working from the strong rough German soul."

This applies to publications of a German work outside of Germany.

It is a highly typical example of German work in its restrained, symmetrical severity.

Overall, it gives the impression of being taut where the German work is compressive.