GERMAN ARTS &

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Balmores, Shane Nicole
Peralta, Jahziel

LITERATURE Reataza, David Daniel

Jamin, Jhon Mark
Marquez, Mark Christoffer
GERMAN LITERATURE
German literature embraced not only the literary works from Germany but also
from Austria, and speaking parts of Switzerland. German literary writers tried to
adopt foreign concepts such as France. That is why German literature (works
written in German) emerged only before the 17th century.
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LITERATURE
BRIEF HISTORY OF GERMAN
LITERATURE
•Early and Medieval German Literature (800-1050)
There was a conflict between the heroic tradition of the Germanic tribe and
Christianity. The conversion of the Germans to Christianity thus presented a great
challenge: that of reeducating an entire people and of adapting and translating the
literature of Christianity into a language that had no written tradition.
German literature begins in the Carolingian period, first in Latin and then in Old
High German 
Hildebrandslied –a short piece of Germanic alliterative heroic verse which is the
sole survivor of what must have been a vast oral tradition
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Other important works are:
• The Evangelienbuch of Ottfried von Weissenburg, the short but splendid Ludwigslied
• In the northern dialect of Old Saxon, a life of Christ in the style of a heroic epic, known as the Heliand

Some authors and works of the high Middle Ages include:

• Herzog Ernst
• Heinrich von Freiberg
• Ulrich von Türheim
• Rudolf von Ems
• Konrad von Würzburg
• Heinrich Frauenlob
• Reinmar der Alte
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LITERATURE
•THE BAROQUE PERIOD
The Baroque period was one of the most fertile times in German literature. Many writers
reflected the horrible experiences of the Thirty Years' War, in poetry and prose.
Baroque literature is a 17th century prose genre that has several distinctive characteristics
when compared to literary styles of earlier centuries. The baroque era is known for the use of
dramatic elements in all art forms, and works of baroque literature are generally no exception.
Grimmelshausen's adventures of the young and naïve Simplicissimus, in the eponymous book,
became the most famous novel of the Baroque period.
Some of the writers during this period who wrote about tragedies are: Andreas Gryphius and Daniel
Caspar von Lohenstein
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LITERATURE
•The Enlightenment Period
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement
in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.

• STURM UND DRANG “STORM AND STRESS” Period

Sturm und Drang or the “storm and stress” is German literary movement of the late 18th
century that exalted nature, feeling, and Human individualism and sought to overthrow the
Enlightenment cult of Rationalism.
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LITERATURE
•THE CLASSICISM PERIOD
In the era of the French Revolution a literary and artistic movement arose in Germany
known by the name Romanticism. Romanticism is a long discredited term, but still there is no
other short designation for the very complex and contradictory movement that prevailed in
German literature from 1789 to 1830 and had a tremendous impact on German culture in
general.

•THE ROMANTICISM PERIOD

In the era of the French Revolution a literary and artistic movement arose in Germany
known by the name Romanticism. Romanticism is a long discredited term, but still there is no
other short designation for the very complex and contradictory movement that prevailed in
German literature from 1789 to 1830 and had a tremendous impact on German culture in
general.
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LITERATURE
•YOUNG GERMANY “JUNGES DEUTSCHLAND”
A group of German writers which existed from about 1830 to 1850. It is a youth movement
that produced poets, thinkers and journalists, all of whom reacted against of Romanticism.
•THE NATURALISM PERIOD
A movement in theatre and film. In theatre, it developed in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. It refers to theatre that tries to create a perfect illusion of reality, a non-poetic
literary style that reflects the way real people speak
•THE EXPRESSIONISM PERIOD
Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for emotional effect.
Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture
and music
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LITERATURE
•THE DADAISM “DADA” PERIOD
A post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly
poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a
protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an
oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works were
characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing
standards of art
GERMAN ARTS
 German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual art, from the earliest known
work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art. German art often effectively
includes that produced in German-speaking regions including Austria, Alsace and much
of Switzerland, as well as largely German-speaking cities or regions to the east of the
modern German borders.
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•Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940)
He was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly
individual style was influenced by movements in art that
included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was
a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually
deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively;
his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory
published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held
to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci’s A
Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance.
Cat and Bird Fish Magic

Castle and Sun Senecio

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Self-Portrait (detail) Death for the Idea Ad Parnassum (1932)

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•Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840)
He was a 19th-century German Romantic Landscape
painter, generally considered the most important German
artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-
period allegorical landscapes, which typically feature
contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies,
morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary
interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often
symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a
subjective, emotional response to the natural world.
Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence
in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes
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Caspar David Friedrich, The Cross in the Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer Above the Sea of Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rugen, 1818-
Mountains, 1808, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Fog, 1817-18, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 19, Stiftung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Dresden, Germany Germany. MASTERPIECE
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•MAX ERNST (April 2, 1891 – April 1, 1976)
Surrealism was an influential 20th century art
movement whose artists rejected rationalism and realism;
and instead focused on channeling the unconscious mind to
unveil the power of the imagination. Max Ernst was a
pioneer of Surrealism as well as the Dada movement, from
which Surrealism evolved. Among the most prominent
contributions of Ernst is his invention of Surrealist
techniques frottage and grattage.
FROTTAGE VS GRATTAGE

Frottage Grattage
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The Elephant Celebes (1921) Forest and Dove (1927) Two Children Are Threatened by a
MASTERPIECE Nightingale
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