EAN: 9783039102570

FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD GRAF ZU STOLBERG AND THE GERM...

This study examines the life and works of the poet Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg
(1750-1819). It begins with an analysis of Stolberg's essays on poetic expression in relation
to Romantic thinking  and the impact of his poetic style on Novalis's early poetry. Stolberg's
aesthetic education in Italy is examined as well as his challenge to the idea that classical
sculpture was always the pinnacle of beauty and that the culture of antiquity was the highest
form of humanity. The detection of melancholy in Greek sculpture  which arises from the
transfer of anxieties about redemption from the artist to the artefact  affected his response
and detracted from the beauty of the sculpture. This view amounted to an attack on Goethe and
Schiller  as it identified the issue of salvation and death as a weakness in the classical
paradigm. The picture of Italy that Stolberg offered was overshadowed by a crisis of confidence
in the aesthetic insights both of Winckelmann and of Lessing and was also the basis for his
reception of Raphael and Michelangelo. Stolberg arrived at a response to Renaissance art and
artists that marginally predates the early German Romantic worship of artists in the 1790s. The
book concludes with a discussion of Stolberg's support of Romantic politics and Romantic
conversions.

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