#German Romanticism

[moon-kissed-corner]

Detail from the painting Mary Magdalene (1860), by Julius Hübner.

[lionofchaeronea]

Times of Day: Evening, Caspar David Friedrich, 1821-22

[monstermonger]

The Ruins of Eldena

[namedvesta]

— unknown, Conversation between Athena and Aphrodite.

— Max Nonnenbruch, Junge Schönheit (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤)

[ripeteeth]

I saw my beloved Wanderer Above The Sea of Fog, now on loan to the Met

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Schmiede im Winter, Wilhelm Steuerwaldt, 1853, Deutschland, Privatsammlung

[escapedaudios]

I love love love love 19th-century German oil paintings from the romantic era and I've always fantasized about making each chapter of Der Wolfsjäger in the final version be illustrated as a re-creation of some of my favorite German paintings. I'm not sure if I'll ever do that (that much custom art would be nauseatingly expensive to commission), but here are some paintings I've pictured as scenes in Der Wolfsjäger!

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, by Caspar David Friedrich (1824), reimagined as Jäger and Schäfer embarking on their first attempt to challenge Johann in episode two.

The Dead Miner (1867), by Carl Christian Heinrich Nahl, re-imagined as wouldn't you like to know from episode wouldn't you like to know.

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), again by the GOAT Caspar David Friedrich, re-imagined as the swordless knight from Jäger's fable.

Megalithic Tomb in Winter, by Johan Christian Dahl (1825). Actually not German, he was Norwegian, but he lived in Dresden when he painted this and he's invited to Das Grillparty. I would re-imagine this scene as Jäger carrying Schäfer to Father Ernst's sanctuary in episode five. The figures in the distance would be Jäger, Weißhund, and Schäfer.

I can't find the year of this one for the life of me, but god I love this frighteningly human-like protrait of a wolf painted by August Friedrich Schenck. I think I'd depict Irene looking a lot like this on the night of her first (and last) wolf transformation.

There are more but Tumblr has a media limit.

[lepetitdragonvert]

Ondine par Claudine Glot

2005

Le baron perché, Edigroup, Paris

Artist : Armel Gaulme

[isabelle-primrose]

The Morning by Philipp Otto Runge, 1808

[dark-longings]

[artschoolglasses]

Cemetery Entrance, Caspar David Friedrich, 1825

[moon-kissed-corner]

Detail from the painting Portrait of Pauline Hübner (1829), by Julius Hübner.

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Return of the Crusader Artist: Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880) Date: 1835 Genre: historical painting; literary painting (illustration of the poem "Kreuzfahrers Einzug" by Karl Immermann) Period: Romantic Movement: Düsseldorf School  Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 66 cm (25.9 in) high x 64 cm (25.1 in) wide Location: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany

[amicus-noctis]

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” ― Novalis

Painting: Portrait of Novalis, painting unknown

[writtebycamus]

David Tennant as Hamlet in "The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich

left: Hamlet (2009) right: wanderer above the sea of troubles (1818)

[creepyinkbby]

My review of Nosferatu!

Letterboxd: creepyinkbby