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What's So Romantic About European Romanticism: The Case for Friedrich's Fame

Code: SL22201

Dates: March 11, 2025

Meets: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Lower Merion High School

Course Fee: $39.00

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Description
What makes art Romantic? And why does Romanticism seem open for both nationalist and spiritual interpretation? This talk by a Met Exhibition contributor discusses the complex questions of European Romanticism, including Caspar David Friedrich’s contributions. Forgotten in his own time, his landscapes - meditative, mysterious, and full of wonder - are seen by many as historically vital to Romanticism as well as modern environmental and mindfulness movements. Bus trip to Met Exhibition 3/13; Class on Fridrich's influence on other artists 4/
Fees
Fee: $39.00
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Location

Lower Merion High School

315 E Montgomery Avenue
Ardmore, PA 19003
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Instructor

Cordula Grewe

Dr. Cordula Grewe specializes in modern European art, with an emphasis on visual piety, word-image relationships, aesthetics, and art as politics. Her books include Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (2009), The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept (2015), Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862): Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (2017), and The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (2021) as well as essay collections on museums of mankind (Die Schau des Fremden, 2006) and print culture (The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, co-edited with John Ittmann, 2017). Her current research projects now push into the 20th and 21st century, ranging from modern theo-aesthetics (Ingres to the Leipzig School) and the body as medium (Emma Hamilton to Nicki Minaj) to art in the Third Reich (Nazi Cultures of Display). In addition to her art historical research, she has embarked on a ‘non-fictional novel,’ part historical reckoning, part family history, and titled Mink in Flames: A Memoir of Immigration, Intergenerational Trauma, and the American Dream.

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