Vorpommern a cradle of romance

Nature, feeling and imagination penetrate romance. Famous personalities such as Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Gottlieb Lappe, Friedrich August von Klinkowström and Phillip Otto Runge have left lasting traces in Western Pomerania. Discover their history.

Portrait by Caspar David Friedrich von Caroline Bardua
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Casper David Friedrich


With his new landscape compositions, the artist is the epitome of romantic art.

"In God's wild, man opens up to man, and by giving and receiving it becomes better and better."

From a letter dated May 1, 1815

Self -portrait of Phillip Otto Runge; Created: about 1801-1802

Phillip Otto Runge


In addition to Casper David Friedrich, he is one of the most important artists of early romanticism.

"If I do not find the comforting view of nature that ever came to me, so I don't find a bigger picture ... than the start of light in nature."

From a letter dated September 26, 1806

Discover romantics

Vorpommern's romantics are the focus of the route of North German romanticism . The 286 -kilometer route takes you from Wolgast via the Hanseatic Cities in Greifswald and Stralsund to Cape Arkona on Rügen. It happens important life and motif stations by the early-romantic artists. Look forward to romantic original locations such as the Eldena monastery ruins , the Ludwigsburg Castle , the Wreecher See, the Göhrener Südstrand or the Königsstuhl National Park Center.

more places of romance !

A woman in a T-shirt by bike walks across a path in the park of the monastery ruins of Greifswald. The old brick walls can be seen in the background.
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Personalities of North German Romanticism

Karl Gottlieb Lappe

in his natural and homeland poems sang the north German landscape.

"Where the Baltic waves swell the colored beach with wild roar, my home country is."

From the home

Portrait Friedrich August von Klinkowström
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Friedrich August von Klinkowström

Was painter and educator. He combined a close friendship with Runge and Friedrich.

"And the greatest appreciation of the person will always make humanity even more immense."

From a letter dated January 4, 1808

Romantics in Western Pomerania

The Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum, opened in the historical soap settlement in 2004 and expanded to the entire former residential and commercial building of the Friedrich family in 2011, is reminiscent of the great painter and largest son of the city of Greifswald. It is also a museum, documentation and research center. Caspar David Friedrich was born on September 5, 1774 at this place.

The Museum Rungehaus is the birthplace of the painters and romantics Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810). In addition to Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the most important painters and graphic artists of German romance.