Modern Breakthrough
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The Modern Breakthrough was a movement of naturalism and debating literature of Scandinavia which replaced romanticism near the end of the 19th century.
A meeting in the association Bogstaveligheden on 1 March 1882. Seated from left: Erik Skram, Georg Brandes, Sophus Schandorph, Holger Drachmann, Edvard Brandes, Viggo Johansen, August Jerndorff, Herman Trier, J.P. Jacobsen, P.S. Krøyer, Karl Madsen, Pietro Krohn, Kristian Zahrtmann. Standing from left: F. Hendriksen, Karl Gjellerup, Otto Borchsenius, Hans Nic. Hansen, Martinus Galschiøt, Laurits Tuxen, Harald Høffding, Michael Ancher. Drawn by Erik Henningsen,
Georg Brandes
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Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist b
Modern Breakthrough
…about the period 1870–1890 in the history of literature in Scandinavia, which in this period had a breakthrough from the rest of Europe. Danish theorist Georg Brandes is often considered to be the "wire-puller" behind the movement, although some of the authors had already begun to write in a realistic style before…
Brandes c. 1886
Georg Brandes in his youth. 1868 drawing by Godtfred Rump.
Danish first edition of Brandes' Hovedstrømninger i det 19de Aarhundredes Litteratur – Emigrantlitteraturen from 1872.
Brandes in 1904