Robert Reinick (22 February 1805 – 7 February 1852) was a German painter and poet, associated with the

Düsseldorf school of painting The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Düsseldorf Academy (now the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State Art Academy) during the 1830s and 1840s, when the A ...

. One of his poems, ''

Dem Vaterland "Dem Vaterland" is a patriotic anthem written by Robert Reinick and set to music by Hugo Wolf. History Wolf, who unsuccessfully attempted to dedicate ''Dem Vaterland'' to Emperor William II, originally wrote it as a song for tenor and piano in 1 ...

'', was set to music by

Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Ro ...

and another, '' The Flight into Egypt'' was the libretto for a cantata by Max Bruch. He wrote the libretto to Schumann's opera Genoveva. Reinick was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) and died in Dresden.

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