Rhine romanticism
The Rhine romanticism was the interpretation of the landscape conditions and history of the Rhine Valley in the cultural-historical period of the romanticism, by the end of the 18th century until the late 19th century and was continued in all forms of art expression.
Schlegel's travel notes as a significant contribution
In response to the nascent industrialization with their perceived negative side effects, artists and writers turned to nature and the past.
Lord Byron made the Rhine area enormously popular in England in 1818 with his verse narrative, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. The German poet Adelheid of Stolterfoth created numerous Rhine poems. In the visual arts William Turner drew attention to the Rhine, especially in England, with his paintings, which were the result of several cruises on the river. The most popular romantic Rhine views, the reproductions in varying formats, such as postcards spreads were derived from Nikolai von Astudin.
From a tourist stopover to a tourist destination
The
After Switzerland, with its rugged mountain valleys, the rocky
Printing popular imagery
The popular image of the romantic Rhine in the first half of the 19th century was not derived from paintings, but almost exclusively from the
The British were leaders in the field, with their
A year later "Traveling Sketches" by
Among the artistically and technically very sophisticated publications of this time is the Verdute series, depicted the whole course of the Rhine, published by the Swiss publisher and painter Johann Ludwig Bleuler around 1827. Bleuler's major work, "Voyage aux bords du Rhin pittoresque et de la Suisse", appeared in 1845.
In 2002, UNESCO declared the Upper Middle Rhine Valley a World Heritage Site.
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"Views of the Rhine" by William Tombleson (1840), ruins of Werner Chapel at Bacharach
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Bingen, engraving by Abresch after Clarkson Stanfield
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St. Goar withBurg Katz, engraving by Ward after Tombleson
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Ruins of Heimburg in Niederheimbach
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Burg Maus
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Ruins of the Castle at Andernach
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Stolzenfels Castle in 1836 shortly before the conversion to a palace
- The pictures 4–7 are old colored engravings by Christian Meichelt based on works by Johann Adolf von Lasinsky.
References and sources
- Carl Trog: Rheinlands Wunderhorn. Sagen Geschichten und Legenden, auch Ränke und Schwänke aus den alten Ritterburgen, Klöstern und Städten der Rheinufer und des Rheingebietes, von den Quellen bis zur Mündung des Stromes, dedicated to the German People by Carl Trog, 15 vols, Alfred Silbermann, Essen and Leipzig, 1882–83, reprinted: Mikado, Atzbach 1980, ISBN 3-8124-0011-1(vol 1)
- Karsten Keune (Hrsg.): Sehnsucht Rhein. Rheinlandschaften in der Malerei, with contributions from Irene Haberland and Elmar Scheure,. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, 2007, ISBN 3-416-03096-6
- Michael Schmitt: Die illustrierten Rhein-Beschreibungen. Dokumentation der Werke und Ansichten von der Romantik bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, Cologne, 1996, ISBN 3-412-15695-7
- Matthias Schmandt: Rheinromantik, Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung im Historischen Museum am Strom – Hildegard von Bingen, Binger Museumshefte, vol. 2, Bad Kreuznach, 2002, ISSN 1617-0415
- Der Rhein. Ein literarischer Reiseführer. Edited by Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Hella S. Lange, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2006, ISBN 978-3-534-18919-9
- Klaus-Peter Hausberg: "Rheinische Sagen & Geschichten", companion guide to the Rhine Legends Route, with the famous and beautiful legends and stories of the Rhine, Moselle, Lahn and Nahe, supplemented with tourist information, J.P. Bachem Verlag, Cologne, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7616-1986-5
- Elisabeth Mick: Mit der Maus auf Rheinreise – 2000 Jahre Geschichte von Düsseldorf bis Mainz, J.P. Bachem Verlag, Cologne, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7616-2069-4
- Bertola de' Giorgi, Aurelio: Viaggio sul Reno e ne' suoi contorni, Rimini, Albertini, 1795.
- Helga Arend: Konkurrierende Frauenbilder in den Rheinsagen, in: Rheinreise 2002. Romantik, Reisen, Realitäten. Frauenleben am Rhein, edited by Bettina Bab and Marianne Pitzen, Edition Lempertz, Bonn, 2002, p. 70–75, ISBN 3-933070-29-5
- Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Christian Meichelt, Kupferstecher und Maler in Basel, Lehrer in Lörrach, tätig auch für den Koblenzer Verlag Karl Bädeker (Baedeker), in: Badische Heimat, issue 4/2000, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2000, p. 700–713, with 7 illustrations, ISSN 0930-7001, published by: Landesverein Badische Heimat e.V., Freiburg.
- Hans Joachim Bodenbach: 200 Jahre Rheinromantik – Vues du bords du Rhin – Rheinansichten aus dem Verlag Karl Bädeker (Baedeker) in Koblenz, in: Beiträge zur Rheinkunde (Rhein-Museum Koblenz), issue 54/2002, Koblenz 2002, p. 26–55, with 30 illustrations
- Hans Joachim Bodenbach: 200 Jahre Rheinromantik – Vues du bords du Rhin – Ein Rheinalbum des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts mit Aquatintastichen aus den Koblenzer Verlagen Fr. Röhling und K. Bädeker (Baedeker) in einem Band – Die bei Röhling verlegten Ansichten, in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter, vol. 49/50, Bonn, 1999/2000 (2001), p. 285–304, with 20 illustrations
External links
- Rhine landscapes in painting
- History of the Middle Rhine
- Josef Wewerka: Rhenish castles and legends, pictures and texts
- Adelheid von Stolterfoth: Rhenish myths, 1835, texts
- Karl Christian Koehler: Views of the Rhine and Ahre
Footnotes
- ISBN 3-499-50123-6, p. 100 ff