Deutsche Romantik: Entering the Forest of German Romanticism

Ludwig II of Bavaria: The Archetypal German Romantic

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany, c. 1890 – 1905

Sturm und Drang (The Storm and Stress Movement): Messerschmidt

 Franz Xavier Messerschmidt, Lusty Fop, 1770 – 83, marble, 45 cm in height.  

 Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna

         

Franz Xavier Messerschmidt, Villain in Metal, 1770 – 83, tin lead alloy, 38.5 cm in height.  

Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna

The Fractured State of Germany

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 Map of Germany in 1815 

 

The Napoleonic Wars: Images of Remembrance

Georg Friedrich Kersting, Theodor Körner, Friesen and Hartmann on Outpost Duty, 1815, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 cm.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

 

                            The Nazarenes: Looking Back in Order to Look Forward

A Historical Role Model: Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe, 1500, oil on linden wood, 67 x 48 cm.  Alte Pinakothek, Munich

German Compatriots in Rome: Joseph Anton Koch

 
Joseph Anton Koch, Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, 1812, oil on canvas, 188.4 x 170.1 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich 

  Joseph Anton Koch, Schmadribach Falls, 1821 – 2, oil on canvas, 131.8 x 110 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich

The Founding Members of the Nazarenes: Franz Pforr and Friedrich Overbeck

Friedrich Overbeck, Portrait of Franz Pforr, 1810, oil on canvas, 62 x 47 cm.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Franz Pforr, Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel in 1273, 1808 – 1810, oil on canvas, 90.5 x 118.9 cm.  Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main

  Franz Pforr, Shulamit and Mary, 1811, oil on panel, 34 x 32 cm.  Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt 

Friedrich Overbeck, Italia and Germania (Shulamit and Mary), 1828, oil on canvas, 94.4 x 104.7 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich

The Nazarenes: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

 

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Portrait of Clara Bianca von Quandt, c.1820, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

 

The Nazarenes: Carl Philipp Fohr

Carl Philipp Fohr, Ideal Landscape Near Rocca Canterana, 1818, oil on canvas, 98 x 135 cm.  Museum Schloss Fasanerie, Eichenzell  

The Revival of German Fairy Tales

Carl Friedrich Schinkel, Castle by a River, 1820, oil on canvas, 70 x 94 cm.  Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin

  Moritz von Schwind, The Rose, 1845 – 7, oil on panel, 216 x 137 cm.  Staatliche Museen, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Ludwig Richter

 Ludwig Richter, Crossing at the Schreckenstein, 1837, oil on canvas, 116.5 x 156.5 cm.  Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden

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Ludwig Richter, Pond in the Riesengebirge, 1839, oil on canvas, 63 x 88 cm.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Ludwig Richter, St. Genevieve in the Forest, 1841, oil on canvas, 116.5 x 100.5 cm.  Kunsthalle, Hamburg

                                                     

                                                             Romantic Painting in Dresden

 

Philipp Otto Runge

Philipp Otto Runge, The Times of Day, 1803, pen on paper, various sizes.  Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Philipp Otto Runge, Morning (First Version), 1808, oil on canvas, 109 x 85.5 cm.  Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Philipp Otto Runge, The Hülsenbeck Children, 1805/06, oil on canvas, 131.5 x 143.5 cm.  Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Philipp Otto Runge, The Lesson of the Nightingale, 1804/05, oil on canvas, 104.7 x 85.5 cm.  Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Georg Friedrich Kersting

 

 Georg Friedrich Kersting, Before the Mirror, 1827, oil on wood panel, 46 x 35 cm.  Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel

 

 

The Influence of Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, 1657, oil on canvas, 83 x 64.5 cm.  Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Georg Friedrich Kersting, The Wreath Maker, 1815, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 cm.   Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

Carl Gustav Carus

Carl Gustav Carus, Moonlight Night Near Rügen, c. 1819, oil on canvas, 38 x 47.5 cm.  Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden

 

Carl Gustav Carus, The Goethe Monument, 1832, oil on canvas, 71.5 x 53.5 cm.  Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Carl Gustav Carus, Allegory on the Death of Goethe, 1832, oil on canvas, 39 x 60 cm.  Frankfurter Goethe Museum, Frankfurt 

 

 

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Cathedral in Winter, 1821, oil on canvas, 127 x 100 cm.  Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden

                                                  Romantic Painting in Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Gothic Cathedral by the Waterside, c.1813/14, oil on canvas, 80 x 106.5 cm, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

  Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Set Design for “The Magic Flute”: Starry Sky for the Queen of the Night, 1815, gouache on paper, 46.3 x 61.6 cm.  Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 

Carl Blechen

 Carl Blechen, Devil’s Bridge, c.1830, oil on canvas, 77.6 x 104.5 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich

  Carl Blechen, In the Park at Terni, c.1836, oil on canvas, 105 x 78.5 cm.  Georg Schäfer Collection, Schweinfurt

                                                        Romantic Painting in Munich

Carl Rottmann, View of the Eibsee, 1825, oil on canvas, 76 x 99.5 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich

 

Carl Rottmann, Taormina with Mt. Etna, 1828/29, oil on canvas, 49 x 73 cm.  Neue Pinakothek, Munich

                                                              The Urban Romantic Image

Johann Erdmann Hummel

Johann Erdmann Hummel, The Granite Bowl in the Pleasure Gardens of Berlin, c.1831, oil on canvas, 66 x 89 cm.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Eduard Gartner

Eduard Gärtner, The Neue Wache, Unter den Linden, 1833, oil on canvas, 47 x 77 cm.  Nationalgalerie, Berlin

 

Eduard Gärtner, Parochialstrasse, 1831, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 27.9 cm.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York