Research Group
European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?
On the Unity of Romanticism in the Visual Arts and Aesthetics of the Early 19th Century
The research group investigates the extent to which Romanticisms in different countries and language regions of Europe share commonalities in the field of visual arts. While this question has been discussed repeatedly in literary studies—though it has yet to arrive at any consensual results—Romantic art is usually considered separately by country and language. This projects asks whether sufficient similarities can be identified between William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, Eugène Delacroix and Philipp Otto Runge, or Francesco Hayez and the Nazarene movement, to justify the notion of not merely different Romanticisms in Europe, but of one European Romanticism. It investigates this question by bringing case studies of various Romanticisms into dialogue. In addition to this, it emphasizes the search for shared aesthetic, artistic, and theoretical foundations.
Doctoral Projects
- Status und Funktion von Replik und zeitgenössischer Kopie in der deutschen Malerei um 1800 [Status and Function of Replica and Contemporary Copy in German Painting around 1800]” (David Grube-Palzer)
- Pre-Raphaelitism in the Context of Romanticism (Christin Neubauer)
- Klassizistisch geprägte Gestaltungsverfahren und ihre Deutung in Bildmedien des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts [Classicist Design Methods and Their Interpretation in Visual Media of the 17th and 18th Centuries] (Tilman Schreiber)