German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism. Compare
Caspar David Friedrich, (1774–1840) Moonrise by the Sea, 1822, 55x71 cm
Angelica Kauffman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Heinrich Heine, 1831, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Anton Graff Heinrich von Kleist, c. 1808
Carl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim, better known as Achim von Arnim, was a German poet, novelist, and together with Clemens Brentano and Joseph von Eichendorff, a leading figure of German Romanti
Portrait by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1803
Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Moritz von Schwind, about 1850