CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ludwig Tieck, Franz Pforr, Johann Friedrich Overbeck
8 Oct 2016
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Towards the end of the eighteenth cen, a new form of intellectual orientation emerged in this highly cultured milieu. Romantics privileged emotion, faith and spirituality over intellect and reason. They preferred spontaneity to calculation, individuality to conformity, and the freedom of nature to the constraints of culture. This group of artists rejected neoclassicism, aiming instead for an art of medieval or christian inspiration, or both. Overbeck has represented pforr as an earnest young man who lives peacefully with his virtuous bride in a medieval religion, including the gothic church, the lily, and the grapevine. Intuition and imagination, the artist reshapes the subject according to his personal vision, creating an image that brings out the subject"s inner spirit. Friedrich overbeck, portrait of the painter franz pforr (c. 1810) Both the painter of this portrait, friedrich overbeck (1789-1869), and its subject, franz pforr (1788-1812), were founding members of the brotherhood of st. luke, a group of six vienna.
