Clemens Brentano

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the French sculptor David d’Angers, the artist who ‘discovered the tragic in landscape’. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compo­sitions that celebrate the riches and the melancholy of a cosmos fully imbued with the divine, while never losing an almost hallucinatory engagement with reality. For all their clarity, they are the quintessence of Romanticism. Almost too familiar today, to Friedrich’s contemporaries these extraordinary paint­ings were astonishing and challenging. This volume records the reactions of some of the most prominent figures of German Romanticism: Kleist, Brentano and Arnim (in a witty series of dialogues between gallery visitors alternately bewitched and bewildered by Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea), the painter and physiologist Carus, the psychologist Schubert, the Russian poet and translator Zhukovsky. A piece by Goethe and his colleague Heinrich Meyer records the somewhat baffled admiration of the earlier generation; and Friedrich’s own Commandments of Art breathes the almost overwhelming passion with which he approached his vocation. An introduction by the leading scholar Johannes Grave situates Friedrich’s art and its reception in the context of the Romantic movement both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.

Inhalt: - Der Bauer und sein Sohn (Eduard M rike) - Das Stuttgarter Hutzelm nnlein (Eduard M rike) - Die Hand der Jezerte (Eduard M rike) - Das M rchen von dem Witzenspitzel (Clemens Brentano) - Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (Clemens Brentano) - Das M rchen von dem Myrtenfr ulein (Clemens Brentano) - Rotkehlchen und Kohlmeischen (Ernst Moritz Arndt) - Kater Martinchen (Ernst Moritz Arndt) - Der Schlangenk nig (Ernst Moritz Arndt) - Die Geschichte von Hyazinth und Rosenbl tchen (Novalis) - Die Zauberei im Herbste: Ein M rchen (Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff) - Tischchen deck dich, Goldesel, und Kn ppel aus dem Sack (Br der Grimm) - Das kalte Herz (Wilhelm Hauff)

Unver nderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1855. Der Verlag Antigonos spezialisiert sich auf die Herausgabe von Nachdrucken historischer B cher. Wir achten darauf, dass diese Werke der ffentlichkeit in einem guten Zustand zug nglich gemacht werden, um ihr kulturelles Erbe zu bewahren.

Unver nderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1875. Der Verlag Antigonos spezialisiert sich auf die Herausgabe von Nachdrucken historischer B cher. Wir achten darauf, dass diese Werke der ffentlichkeit in einem guten Zustand zug nglich gemacht werden, um ihr kulturelles Erbe zu bewahren.