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AUSTRIA / Wien: WORLDS OF ROMANTICISM
by Modem
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until Sunday February 28 2016

Albertina
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1010 Wien
Austria



With a selection of seminal works as its basis, the focus will be set on various phenomena arising from this period of intellectual history emerging around 1800. The ideas, which had an epoch-making effect at the time, have lost little of their topicality even to this day.

In this connection, an initial confrontation will be waged between German protestant Romanticism and the Catholic Romanticism of the Brotherhood of St. Luke, an offshoot of the Vienna Academy. This confrontation will address, among other things, the glorified view of the Middle Ages or the World of Dreams, visions (of death) and the abyss, illuminated by preeminent examples.

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