page_title: German Romanticism
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: German Romanticism / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Architectural design No III for a church in the Oranienburger Vorstadt (Berlin) by Carl Friedrich Schinkel Deutsch: Architektonischer Entwurf Nr. III für eine Kirche in der Oranienburger Vorstadt (Berlin) von Carl Friedrich Schinkel
context_page_description: German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism, the German variety developed relatively early, and, in the opening years, coincided with Weimar Classicism. In contrast to the seriousness of English Romanticism, the German variety of Romanticism notably valued wit, humour, and beauty.
  The early period, roughly 1797 to 1802, is referred to as Frühromantik or Jena Romanticism. The philosophers and writers central to the movement were Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, and Friedrich von Hardenberg.
  The early German romantics strove to create a new synthesis of art, philosophy, and science, by viewing the Middle Ages as a simpler period of integrated culture; however, the German romantics became aware of the tenuousness of the cultural unity they sought.
context_section_description: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
caption: Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Project for church in Oranienburger Vorstadt, Berlin
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