Clemens Brentano
Videos
Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano was a German poet and novelist, and a major figure of German Romanticism. He was the uncle, via his brother Christian, of Franz and Lujo Brentano.
Portrait by Emilie Linder, painted in 1835; printed in from Meyer's Encyclopedia, 1906
Die Gründung Prags (1852)
Bettina von Arnim
Videos
Bettina von Arnim was a German writer, composer, and novelist.
Clemens Brentano
…in Frankfurt on 9 September 1778. His father's family was of Italian descent. His maternal grandmother was Sophie von La Roche. His sister was writer Bettina von Arnim, who, at a young age, lionised and corresponded with Goethe, and, in 1835, published the correspondence as Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (Goethe's…
Bettina von Arnim as drawn by Ludwig Emil Grimm during the first decade of the 19th century