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).
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
Weimar Classicism
…in a project to establish new standards for literature and the arts in Germany. By contrast, the contemporaneous and efflorescing literary movement of German Romanticism was in opposition to Weimar and German Classicism, especially to Schiller. It is in this way both may be best understood, even to the degree in which…
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