The Romantic Movement

• French enlightenment culture was popular in the Holy Roman Empire amongst intellectuals & the elite


  Late 18th century
• Napoleon's invasion in 1806


  French enlightenment culture was patriotically rejected
• Romantic Movement


  Popularised culture that was uniquely German
• Works that helped create a shared German culture


  • The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (1812)
  • Caspar David Friedrich's paintings of the Germanic landscape (1814)
  • Johann Fichte's Address to the German Nation (1808)
  • Ernst Arndt's call for a fatherland of all German speaking states (1813)
• Much of this culture was not widely accessible beyond the intellectual middle class