Romanticism

Casper David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog, c. 1816. The vision of Romantic genius: solitude and transcendence, individuality and mystical communion with nature, spirit or “the one.” Bpk, Berlin / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Elke Walford / Art Resource, New York

Perhaps, somewhere, some place, deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes, while you are sad. ~ Rilke

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke

German Romanticism www.christianberlin.com/inspiration-en/art-beauty-and-the-divine-7-key-facts-about-german-romanticism

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I believe that the Jena Set is, intellectually speaking, the most important of all these groups. In their lifetimes members became so famous that reports of their ideas and scandals filtered out through German newspapers to the wider world. . . .

They became known as the “Young Romantics”. In fact, they were the first to use the term ‘romantic’ in their writings, heralding Romanticism as an international movement by providing not only its name and purpose but also an intellectual framework. But what was Romanticism? Today, the term tends to suggest artists, poets and musicians who emphasise emotion and years to be at one with nature. Images of lonely figures in moon-lit forests or standing on craggy cliffs about seas of fog are as much associated with Romanticism as poems about forlorn lovers. Some say that the Romantics opposed reason and celebrated irrationalism; others agree that they rejected the idea of absolute knowledge. However, when we look at the beginning of Romanticism we find something much more complex, contradictory and multi-layered. ~ Page 18

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