| German Romanticism - The History | | | | revolutionary, free spirited, and intensely |
| Towards the end of the 18th century, Europe | | | | expressive phenomenon, focusing on aesthetic |
| saw major political, social, and cultural changes, | | | | experience. It broke all the conservative norms of |
| brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Logic | | | | the more restrained German Classicism (Weimar |
| and science were given precedence over emotion | | | | Classicism), which reined at the time. The artists |
| or faith. As a direct reaction to the Enlightenment | | | | drew inspiration from their inner sanctum, rather |
| Era, a highly complex and intellectual artistic | | | | than letting the outer real world influence them. |
| movement called Romanticism started to gain | | | | They would isolate themselves in locked rooms to |
| prominence. German Romanticism was a dominant | | | | reflect in melancholy and paint in spontaneity. In |
| part of this art movement that lasted from late | | | | effect, their imagination, intuition, and personal |
| 18th to early 19th century. It hugely influenced | | | | expression drove the creative process here. Their |
| the literary arts and sciences of Germany and | | | | works were actually the individual revelations of |
| helped bring the Germans together, as a country. | | | | an inner world that exist in all of us. German |
| The Details | | | | Romanticism was rather whimsical in comparison |
| German Romantic Art can be categorized as a | | | | to the English or European Romanticism. |