German Romanticism
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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
Jena Romanticism
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Jena Romanticism, also the Jena Romantics or Early Romanticism, is the first phase of Romanticism in German literature represented by the work of a group centred in Jena from about 1798 to 1804. The m
German Romanticism
…and, in the opening years, coincided with Weimar Classicism (1772–1805). The early period, roughly 1797 to 1802, is referred to as Frühromantik or Jena Romanticism. The philosophers and writers central to the movement were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854…
The busts of Caroline Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, and Friedrich Schlegel in front of the Romantic House Museum in Jena