Western Art - German Romanticism - A Route to the Insight of the Innermost

German Romanticism - History
Late 18 century, Europe has seen major political, social and cultural changes brought by the Industrial Revolution. Logic and science is given priority over emotions, or religion. As a direct reaction to the Enlightenment Era, is a complex artistic and intellectual movement called Romanticism began to gain prominence. German Romanticism was the dominant part of this art movement that lasted from the late 18th until the early 19 century. It is heavily influenced literary art and science in Germany and helped the Germans together as a country.

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German Romantic art can be categorized as a revolutionary, free spirited, and intensely expressive phenomenon, focusing on the aesthetic experience. It broke all the conservative norms of restrained classicism German (Weimar classicism), who reined in that time. Artists drew inspiration from their inner holy place, before you are outside the real world affect them. They would be isolated in closed spaces, to reflect the color of melancholy and the spontaneity. In fact, their imagination, intuition, and personal expression driven by the creative process here. Their works are actually individual revelations of the inner world that exist in all of us. German Romanticism was quite moody in relation to English and European Romanticism.

The German Romantic paintings are surreal, dramatic illustrations, with sharp contours, vibrant colors and fanciful elements. Their very evocative landscapes are allegorical in nature, carries a mystical qualities about them. artists often depicted landscapes as a symbol of the divine. Such images would feature wild dark sky or the morning mist, after a confused figure in them. They will celebrate the exotic, unfamiliar, and spiritually. Critics have often marked their elaborative and working intensively as 'apsurdne'ili' too idealistic .'

Artists & Artworks
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was one of the foremost German Romantics. His works, especially "The wanderer above the sea of fog '(1818) and" out of the sea "(1822), are exemplary German Romantic works. managed to affect the genre painters known Dresden and Dusseldorf School in Germany. Some other main proponents of this movement were Philip Otto Runge (1777-1810), Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803-1884), Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789-1862), Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839), Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857), and Carl Spitzweg (1808 - 1885). a group of German Romantics began Nazarene movement that helped restore spiritual values ​​among people.