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...Dresden in 1840, Friedrich was one of the most German artists Germany produced in the 19th century. He never made the obligatory journey south to study in Rome; his subject matter was the foggy and precipitous vista, sublimely expansive and filled with premonitory brooding. The writer Ludwig Tieck believed Friedrich was the Nordic genius incarnate, whose mission was "to express and suggest most sensitively the solemn sadness and religious stimulus which seem recently to be reviving our German world in a strange way." This month a retrospective of Friedrich's work -about 230 paintings and studies -opened in Frankfurt...
...uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which lyric genius had placed, awakened to the ghoulish nightmare of inferiority, blew out his brains. Heine...
...Ludwig Tieck has described the work of Euripides as the dawn of a romantic poetry haunted by dim yearnings and forebodings. To a large extent this saying is true; with Euripides a change had begun in the culture and spiritual life of Athens...
...Shakespeare in Germany: The Schlegel "Tieck Translation". Professor Burlhard, Sever 6, German...
Professor Howard talked about the Schlemiels last Thursday and by today in his course on German literature he is well into the Romantic movement. I plan to go to the Germanic Museum at 11 o'clock to hear him discuss Tieck and Wackenroder, two of the most important figures in the Sturm and Drang period. I wonder just how many courses offered by the University treat some phase of the Romantic movement; the ghest of Jean-Jacques must be mightily amused at his new tound academic dignity...