The world must be romanticized

Introduction to the 3rd floor

The spread of Romanticism

“The world must be romanticized”

Message to Europe

August Wilhelm Schlegel and Madame de Staël spread the Romantic idea (1813-1817)

The man who sold his shadow

Adelbert von Chamisso tells a wondrous story (1814/24)

Romantic Painting Cabinet

Lukasbrüder

FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER

Appreciating what is foreign

Friedrich Schleiermacher reflects on methods of translation (1816)

CLEMENS BRENTANO

The new gospel

Clemens Brentano records the visions of a stigmatic nun (1818-1824)

Completed in a picture

Cologne Cathedral becomes a Romantic building project (1823-1832)

E.T.A. HOFFMANN

Looking through the mind microscope

E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Frankfurt fairy tale Master Flea (1822)

Manuscript Studio

JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF

Out into the wide world

Joseph von Eichendorff sends a good-for-nothing on a journey (1822)

MARY SHELLEY

How the Romantics put fear in our hearts

Frankenstein and the vampire (1831/32)

RAHEL VARNHAGEN

Equality in action

Memories of Rahel Varnhagen (1834/35)

JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF

The magic word

Joseph von Eichendorff at work (1835)

WILHELM MÜLLER

Winter journey

Wilhelm Müller and Franz Schubert send a lover across ice and snow (1823/24)

BETTINE VON ARNIM

Chess with the king

Bettine von Arnim and her daughters challenge Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840/44)

Window to St. Paul’s Church

LUDWIG TIECK

Idyll in the garret?

Ludwig Tieck tells a Romantic love story (1837)

ROBERT SCHUMANN

Here the view is free, the spirit lifted

Robert Schumann sets Goethe’s Faust to music

Epilog

Romanticism – no end in sight? (1859)

Elliptical stairwell with prism installation