German Romanticism

The Romantic movement affected all the arts and was a break from the classical traditions that preceded it. Changes in the styles of artistic expression throughout history have reflected not only developments in materials and shifting patters within the art world itself but have also reflected changing circumstances in society at large, including political changes, historical movements, altered social conditions, changed economic circumstances, shifts in religious thinking, and so on. In the nineteenth century, the prevailing artistic style for the first part of the century was romanticism, an art based on a form of "disorder," but a disorder seen as the emblem of the unfettered processes of the imagination:

In historical terms, fully developed Romanticism is the successor to the cults of nature and of feeling which sprang up in the course of the eighteenth century. . . Romanticism took pride in its own contradictions: it embraced free thought on the one hand,m and religious mysticism on the other (Lucie-Smith 373).

Romanticism was the heir to the spirit of the French

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iends held long philosophical discussions on the works of Kant and Fichte. The conflict between the elder and the younger Helmholtz has been held up as symbolic of the conflict of the two generations of German though. natural science was at a low point in the early part of the century as post-Kantian philosophers embarked on a speculative idealistic interpretation of the universe, rejecting both the methods and findings of natural science as superficial. Helmholtz and others would move in the opposite direction so that the gulf would widen between philosophers and natural science (Ginzburg 262). German romanticism therefore had direct and indirect effects as it provided a certain spirit that infused German science while also standing as an example to be opposed.  Works Cited Cole, B. and A. Gealt. Art of the Western World. New York: Summit Books, 1989. Ginzburg, Benjamin. The Adventure of Science. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. Lucie-Smith, E. Art and Civilization. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. Purrington, Robert D. Physics in the Nineteenth Century. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers, 1997. 2) The 1847 Group formed around the scientific ideas of Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz, one of the leading German scienti
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