Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

  Author- Brian Hawkeswood.                                                             Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There are moments in art history when the mood of a civilization shifts—not gradually, like a river eroding a stone, but suddenly, like a storm breaking across a plain. One such moment unfolded in late 18th-century Europe, when artists, poets, and philosophers began to turn away from the clarity, harmony, and restraint of the Enlightenment and the Neoclassical ideal. In its place rose something darker, grander, more elusive—a vision of nature not as ordered garden but as overwhelming force, and of the human soul not as rational instrument but as storm-tossed vessel. This was the birth of Romanticism , and at its trembling heart lay the idea of the sublime. Caspar David Friedrich , " Wanderer above t...