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A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of Friedrich’s often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement with these philosophical ideas through a focus on is...
Německý nacionalismus se zrodil na počátku 19. století a do 40. let se rozrostl do velikosti masového hnutí. Text se věnuje především tomuto období. Ačkoli mnoho historiků tvrdí, že není nutné zmiňovat negativní aspekty nacionalismu, autor se jim nevyhýbá a naopak zastává stanovisko, že bez nich by bylo vnímání daného fenoménu i období neúplné.