The German painter is one of the major representatives of late Romanticism. Initially, Carl Spitzweg still connected to the epoch of Biedermeier and later had loosened up his style of painting, impressionism very close. Carl Spitzweg had a keen sense ...

The doctor and writer, is a central figure in the Swabian romanticism. In his lyrical work is oriented Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner on the romantic folk-like song in the works of the collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" by Clemens Brentano and ...

The philosopher was the most influential representatives of German idealism. His philosophy is one of the most complex in the history of philosophy and is in effect comparable to that of Plato, Aristotle and Kant. He taught the philosophy of ...

The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is next, with whom he founded the style of the Weimar Classics, one of the most important figures in German literature. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was not only author inexhaustible, spoke strongly ...

The writer and journalist went through his popular-humorous, sometimes melancholy, sweet and naive works, which were marked by deep religious feeling, to become one of the most significant German poets. Matthias Claudius is associated with the name of "Wandsbeker messengers" ...

In his major work "Fragments physiognomy" tried the militant theologian, philosopher and writer to prove that allow the shape of the outer parts of man, especially of the face, statements about his character. This view sparked a fad, but also ...

The writer was the most important poets of the Enlightenment. With his plays and his theoretical writings he influenced the further development of German literature significantly. By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the name of a newer in the German drama and ...

The Hamburg-based counselor, translator and poet is a transitional poet, who felt obliged in his early works of the Baroque and Enlightenment in the later literary sense of the early Enlightenment era operation. The content of his works are considerably ...

The German writer thematized in a narrative work of the Thirty Years War and its human consequences. With the "adventurer Simplicissimus" Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen managed a piece of world literature. The Christian doctrine as a background, however, illustrated ...

The Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman is one of the most important figures in art history. He is one of the principal masters of Baroque painting in the Netherlands. His epoch-forming and cross-generation services accounted for among other things, his ...