The Romantic era in Vorpommern - Where painters just have to paint

A sunset on the coast of Vorpommern invites you to relax and take a deep breath. Famous painters already enjoyed this 200 years ago. With these fascinating proportions of light and shadow in the nature of Vorpommern, the artists had to reach directly to the tools and begin the process of creating new works. Caspar David Friedrich is probably the most famous among them, who wanted to get back to nature and to himself and thus made Vorpommern a place of pilgrimage for the Romanticists.

Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald 1774. He is regarded as the most important painter and drawer of German early Romanticism, and he returned to his home region on the coast of the Bay of Greifswald many times. The northern German landscape had a lasting impact on Friedrich’s personality as well as his painting, and it made him a forerunner of a new outlook on art and landscape. One more reason for a vacation in Vorpommern is the annual event "A Day with Caspar David Friedrich", which was introduced in honor of the most famous son of the Hanseatic and University City of Greifswald. Places of Romanticism in and around Greifswald, which served the painter as a source of inspiration and motifs, can be experienced on foot or by bicycle throughout the year, such as the ruins of the Eldena monastery ruin, a remnant of the Cistercian monastery founded in 1199.

If you want to take a closer look at the works of Caspar David Friedrich, the Pomeranian State Museum is the right place to go. In addition to Friedrich's works, other valuable collections are presented there, by painters such as Philipp Otto Runge, Max Liebermann or Vincent van Gogh. Especially Philipp Otto Runge from Wolgast, as a close friend of Friedrich, went down in history as a versatile painter of the 19th century. Or Friedrich August von Klinkowström, who was responsible for the artistic design of Ludwigsburg palace. You can find out more about the most famous representatives, their stations in life and places of activity on the Route of North German Romanticism.

If you want to experience the landscape of Vorpommern as well as art, you will do everything right with a sailing trip. In many harbours of Vorpommern you can get on historic traditional sailing ships, like the traditional sailing ship Weisse Düne in Wolgast, and experience a lot. In Greifswald, the image of the Museum harbour Greifswald is characterized by about 45 traditional ships, with numerous sailors offering excursions and sailing trips.
So it is called to enjoy the romantic Vorpommern from the water side.