The early 19th century was a period in German art in which painting played a significant part in the cultural resurgence commonly known as the Romantic Movement

The modernist aesthetic and, later, Nazi ideology split German Romantic painting into two opposed phases, an early progressive movement, represented by Caspar D

Explains the development of Romantic arts and culture in Germany, with both individual artists and key themes covered in detail.

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology. The wor

After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and th