Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights. He was one of the
Portrait by Anton Graff, 1786–1791
Portrait of Friedrich Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen (1808/1809)
Spouse Charlotte Schiller, née von Lengefeld, Ludovike Simanowiz 1794
Medal by Stefan Schwartz [de] to his 100th Death Anniversary, after a sculpture of 1794 by Dannecker, Vienna 1905, obverse
Sturm und Drang was a proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particular, e
Friedrich Schiller
…and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights. He was one of the most important figures of the Sturm und Drang movement. He was born in Marbach to a devoutly Lutheran family. Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart…
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847