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Chapter 10
Culture, Literature, Art, and Music
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From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance (1815-1866)
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Romanticism: Friedrich Schlegel, Excerpts from Selected Works (1798–1804)
Friedrich Schlegel (1816)
Philipp Otto Runge, The Hülsenbeck Children (1805–06)
Philipp Otto Runge, Small Morning (1808)
Bettina von Arnim (c. 1809)
Clemens Brentano (1st Half of the Nineteenth Century)
Friedrich Overbeck, Portrait of the Painter Franz Pforr (c. 1810)
Friedrich Overbeck, Italia and Germania (1811–28)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Gothic Cathedral (1811)
Georg Friedrich Kersting, On Outpost Duty (1815)
In a Berlin Living Room (1816)
E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Strange Child (1816)
Social Gathering at the Home of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense (undated)
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above a Sea of Fog (c. 1818)
Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs of Rügen (1818–19)
Carl Gustav Carus, Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley (c. 1820)
Caspar David Friedrich, Caroline at the Window (1822)
Caspar David Friedrich, Solitary Tree (Village Landscape in Morning Light) (1822)
Joseph Anton Koch, Schmadribach Falls (1822)
Caspar David Friedrich, Winter – Cloister Ruins and Churchyard by the Sea (c. 1826)
Preface to the Second Edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1819)
Correspondence between Jacob Grimm and Jernej Kopitar (1823–24)
The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1847)
Little Red Riding Hood (c. 1825)
Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty (c. 1840)
The Old Museum in Berlin (c. 1825)
The New Theater in Berlin (c. 1825)
Georg Friedrich Kersting, Before the Mirror (1827)
Classicism: Excerpts from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Conversations with Johann Peter Eckermann (1824–28)
Johann Peter Eckermann (c. 1825)
Joseph Stieler, Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1828)
A Schubert Evening at the Home of Josef von Spaun on December 15, 1826 (1868)
Biedermeier Chair from the Berlin City Palace, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (c. 1829–30)
Biedermeier Chair with Inlay and Figurative Elements (c. 1830-40)
Everyone Reads Everything – A Reading Café in Berlin (1832)
Carl Blechen, The Interior of the Palm House on Peacock Island (1832–34)
Carl Blechen, View of Rooftops and Gardens (1833)
Ludolf Wienbarg, Aesthetic Campaigns. Dedicated to Young Germany (1834)
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy (left) in The Evil Spirit of Lumpacivagabundus or the Slovenly Threesome (1834)
Heinrich Heine: Excerpts from The Romantic School (1836)
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Portrait of Heinrich Heine (1831)
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Goethe Surrounded by Illustrations from his Works (c. 1835)
The School of Architecture in Berlin (c. 1835)
Festival in Cannstadt: The Story of Kaspar Hauser (1835)
Peter Cornelius, The Last Judgment (1836–39)
Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet (1839)
George Gottfried Gervinus, Excerpts from the Introduction to The History of the Poetical National Literature of the Germans (1840)
Classical and Romantic Cultural Styles: Prince Clemens von Metternich and King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia (June 1840)
Adrian Ludwig Richter, Rübezahl Appears to a Mother in the Form of a Charburner (1842)
Moritz von Schwind, The Falkenstein Ride (1843–44)
At the Café Français in Leipzig (1844)
Berthold Auerbach on his Approach to Village Tales from the Black Forest (1844)
Berthold Auerbach (1865)
Concert in the Leipzig Gewandhaus (1845)
Oktoberfest: The Theresienwiese in Munich (1845)
Ernst Dronke on Popular Theater, Bourgeois Theater, and Court Theater in Berlin (1846)
Adolph von Menzel, The Balcony Room (1845)
Spa Concert in Vienna (1847)
Goethe Commemoration in the Great Hall of the Grand Duke’s Library in Weimar (1849)
Robert Schumann with his Wife Clara (c. 1850)
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl on Rural Fiction and Real Peasants (1851)
Gustav Freytag, Excerpt from a Review of Recent German Novels (1853)
Quartet Evening at Bettina von Arnim’s in Berlin (1856)
Heinrich Hoffmann, Struwwelpeter (1858)
Peter Cornelius, Gunther Orders Hagen to Sink the Nibelung Treasure (1859)
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy in One of His Own Plays (1860)
On the New Canal near Berlin (1864)
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