Romantic awakening

Introduction to the 2nd floor

Romantic awakening

“The mysterious path leads within”

Romantically lonely places

Wackenroder and Tieck in the Harz Mountains (1794)

Outpourings of the heart

Wackenroder and Tieck elevate art to a religion (1797)

Waldeinsamkeit

Ludwig Tieck writes a folk tale (1797)

Romanticizing the world

Novalis proclaims the poetic state (1798)

Experimental arrangements

The Schlegels cause a sensation (1798)

The blue flower

Novalis has a dream (1800)

Open all the veins of your wise body

Karoline von Günderrode receives a letter (1802)

Who? When? Where?

Who? When? Where? — An interactive map of Romanticism

From the water’s coolness I drink embers

Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim on the Rhine (1802)

Clemens in plaster

Sophie Mereau-Brentano writes a poem about her husband’s portrait (1803)

No place on earth

Karoline von Günderrode writes about love and death (1805/1806)

The Times of Day

Philipp Otto Runge plans a Romantic synthesis of the arts (1805)

Poetry is the sun

Friedrich Schlegel presents a universe of knowledge (1802/1803)

The Boy’s Magic Horn

Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano collect folk songs (1805-1808)

Enter the sorcerer

Peter Cornelius draws Goethe’s “Faust” (1808)

Cosmos of colours

Philipp Otto Runge’s theory of colour harmony for painters (1810)

Friedrich’s seascape

Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim visit an exhibition (1810)

Physics as art

Johann Wilhelm Ritter works with electricity and light (1797-1810)

The purple shimmer

E. T. A. Hoffmann declares Beethoven a Romantic (1810)

And they lived happily ever after

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collect fairy tales (1812)

Germania to Her Children

Poetic mobilization (1813)