Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (13 July 1773 – 13 February 1798) was a German jurist and

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. With

Ludwig Tieck Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in B ...

and the Schlegel brothers, he has co-founded the German Romanticism.

Life

Wackenroder was born in Berlin. He was a close friend of Tieck from youth until his early death. They collaborated on virtually everything they wrote in this period. Wackenroder probably made substantial contributions to Tieck's novel ''Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen'' (''Franz Sternbald’s Wanderings,'' 1798), and Tieck to Wackenroder's influential collection of essays, ''Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders'' (''Outpourings of an Art-Loving Friar,'' 1797). ''Outpourings'' is a tribute to Renaissance and

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and

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, attributing to them a sense of emotion Wackenroder and Tieck felt was missing in German Enlightenment thought. It was also the first work to claim for

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art a status equivalent to that of the

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, at least in the case of Albrecht Dürer. The ''Outpourings'' have been accorded a status in Germany akin to that of ''

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'' in England, i.e. as the first work of the Romantic movement. Koerner, Joseph. ''Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape'', pp. 55-56 Wackenroder died in Berlin in 1798 at the age of 24 of a case of

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References

Bibliography

* Robson-Scott, William Douglas. "Wackenroder and the Middle Ages." ''Modern Language Review'' 50.2 (1955): 156–167
online
* Scher, Steven Paul. "Temporality and Mediation: WH Wackenroder and ETA Hoffmann as Literary Historicists of Music." ''Journal of English and Germanic Philology'' 75.4 (1976): 492–502
online
* Spencer, Tom. "Revelation and Art Religion in WH Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck." ''Monthly issues'' 107.1 (2015): 26–45. doi: 10.3368/m.107.1.26 * Kertz-Welzel, Alexandra. ''Die Transzendenz der Gefühle. Beziehungen zwischen Musik und Gefühl bei Wackenroder/Tieck und die Musikästhetik der Romantik.'' Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft, no. 71. Ph.D. Dissertation (Saarbrücken, Germany: Universität des Saarlandes, 2000). St. Ingbert, Germany: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2001. .

External links

German Romanticism
from the Literary Encyclopedia.

Wackenroders „Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders“ in ihrem Verhältnis zu Vasari
von Dr. Ernst Dessauer at

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