#romanticism — Public Fediverse posts

Went there before the #pandemic and visited Balzac's study
https://www.timeout.com/news/a-museum-dedicated-to-romantic-life-will-reopen-this-valentines-day-in-paris-011926 My photo essay here
https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2020/04/25/the-romantic-era-from-france-to-spain/ #balzac #literature #romanticism #delacroix

Death of Sardanapalus, Eugene Delacroix (1827), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/10/death-of-sardanapalus-eugene-delacroix.html

#art #paintings #romanticism #delacroix

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.

Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:

“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”

The story does not end well for Schlemihl.

Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194

#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
#Romanticism

"Gate in the Rocks," Karl Freidrich Schinkel, 1818.

Schinkle (1781-1841) was a painter, of course, but also an architect, urban planner, and a designer of furniture and theatrical sets. One of his set designs was the oft-reproduced starry set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute" which you've probably seen somewhere. He also helped chape Berlin from being a small provincial city to a major capitol.

As an architect, he mostly worked in a Neoclassical style until turning to Neo-Gothic in his later life; artistically, he was solidly a Romantic. This dramatic canvas seems to have been influenced by a trip to Friulia, a region of Italy by the German border. If it looks anything like this, I want to go.

From the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #KarlFriedrichSchindel

"Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin," Carl Gustav Carus, c. 1828.

German-born Carus (1789-1869) wasn't just an artist...he was also a doctor, naturalist, scientist, and psychologist, and he studied landscape painting under the great Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, whose influence can be seen here.

He was personal physician to King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, and traveled with him to meet Queen Victoria. As a naturalist, he originated the notion of vertebrates vs. invertebrates, gently revolutionizing biology. He was also a prolific author, writing books on zoology, nature, medicine, psychology, travel, and art theory.

Here we have a scene from inside a ruined monastery, built in 1369 and abandoned in 1546, and which became a favorite haunt of the Romantics in the 1820s. Despite the Gothic material, the feeling it gives is almost positive and hopeful, looking through the ruins to a new day.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CarlGustaveCarus #Gothic #Ruins #RenaissanceMan

@Vagrarian
“There werewolf... (Other side). There werewolf...”

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Mountains in the Rising Fog," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1835.

Friedrich (1774-1840) seems perfect for spooky season; his Romantic landscapes, once nearly forgotten, have been rediscovered by a new generation of Romantics....although it was a bumpy ride, with his work being briefly co-opted by the Nazi party, then dismissed in the face of growing modernism, and then being exploited by Disney and horror-movie makers. In the 1970s he began to be taken seriously again and now is the subject of many a museum exhibit.

The view is of the Rosenberg, in Bohemian Switzerland. Makes the imagination go wild, eh? Dark castles, swordfights, mad scientists, curses, witches...whatever your mind can dream up...

From the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #Switzerland #Alps

"Landscape with Mountain Lake, Morning," Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1823-35.

Happy birthday to Caspar David Friedrich, born this day in 1774!

He was THE great Romantic artist, often doing allegorical paintings of human figures contemplating some natural scene that dwarfs them...or maybe Gothic ruins (because, after all, Gothicism is an outgrowth of Romanticism).

Here he's got a small human figure pausing by the side of a lake in a dramatic mountain landscape. If you squint a little, you can make out a large building on the other side of the lake, perhaps a palace of some sort (just over the man's head) but it's overwhelmed in size and majesty by the lake and the mountains. This is Friedrich's message...that Nature will always be bigger than Man.

His tragedy was that he outlived his fame; his style went out of fashion and when he died in 1840, he was lonely and half-forgotten. But in modern times he's been rediscovered and his art revived...especially as it's now in public domain and has been used as cover art for various editions of Gothic novels and the like. His dramatic views help set the tone.

From a private collection.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #landscape

"Geroldsauer Valley Close to Baden-Baden," Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1855.

Schirmer (1807-1863) started as a painter of historical scenes, but later found his calling as a landscape painter, one of the founding members of what was later known as the Dusseldorf School. His work embraced both Classicism and Romanticism, and also included Biblical scenes.

Here we have a real-life valley in Germany, depicts an early morning in that golden time of late summer/early fall. A woman with a parasol and a young man (lower right) are wandering, taking in the air. Below us stretches a vista of farm fields, trees, and scattered houses, including a mill. A road stretches through the valley, following a stream. In the distance we have various peaks of the Black Forest mountains, realistically depicted.

I love this scene; it reminds me so much of the Appalachian scenery of my home.

From the Staatsliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

#Art #GermanArt #Romanticism #JohannWilhelmSchirmer #Landscapes #Drama #Mountains #Nostalgia