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).
The Weimar courtyard of the muses is a term, that had emerged during the 19th century. It refers to an elite fellowship of people in Classical Weimar, that was made up of nobles and commoners, courtie
Temple of the Muses with statue of Melpomene, Greek muse of tragic poetry and song, built in 1803, Tiefurt Mansion
Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach with her sons, around 1773-74