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.
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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
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.
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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
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
