Sturm und Drang
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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
Clearing Up: Coast of Sicily, Andreas Achenbach, 1847
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Anton Leisewitz
Weimar Classicism
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Weimar Classicism was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It
Weimar's Courtyard of the Muses (1860) by Theobald von Oer. Schiller reads in the gardens of Schloss Tiefurt, Weimar. Amongst the audience are Herder (second person seated at the far left), Wieland (center, seated with cap) and Goethe (in front of the pillar, right).