Weimar Classicism

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Weimar Classicism was a late 18th- and early 19th-century German literary and cultural movement centered in Weimar that sought to harmonize Enlightenment reason with classical aesthetics, prominently shaped by figures like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement
literary movement
aimedTo harmonize Enlightenment reason with classical aesthetics
country Germany
emphasized aesthetic education
humanism
ideal of humanity
measure and harmony
moral education
endTime early 19th century
hasCenter Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar court
surface form: Weimar Court

Weimarer Hoftheater
surface form: Weimar Court Theatre
hasKeyFigure Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
surface form: Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Christoph Martin Wieland
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
surface form: Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Friedrich Schiller
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
hasPart German literature
German philosophy
German theater
aesthetics
hasWork Faust, Part One
surface form: Faust

Iphigenia in Tauris
Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen
surface form: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man

Mary, Queen of Scots
surface form: Maria Stuart

Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen
surface form: On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Die Jungfrau von Orleans
surface form: The Maid of Orleans

Torquato Tasso
Wallenstein
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Xenia
influenced 19th-century German literature
European classicism
Romanticism
surface form: German Romanticism
influencedBy Age of Enlightenment
Enlightenment rationalism
Immanuel Kant
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Renaissance humanism
ancient Greek literature
ancient Roman literature
classical antiquity
language German
locatedIn Weimar
movementCenter Weimar
surface form: Weimar, Thuringia
opposed excesses of Sturm und Drang
relatedTo German Enlightenment
German idealism
surface form: German Idealism

Sturm und Drang
startTime late 18th century

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe movement Weimar Classicism
Sturm und Drang relatedTo Weimar Classicism
Thuringia knownFor Weimar Classicism
Thuringia hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Classical Weimar
Deutsche Aufklärung influenced Weimar Classicism
Gottfried movement Weimar Classicism
subject surface form: Johann Gottfried Herder
Friedrich Schiller movement Weimar Classicism
Weimar heritageSiteName Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Classical Weimar
Weimar knownFor Weimar Classicism
Cotta associatedWithMovement Weimar Classicism
Fürstengruft, Weimar partOf Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Classical Weimar
Fürstengruft, Weimar associatedWith Weimar Classicism
Elective Affinities literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Egmont literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Iphigenia in Tauris genre Weimar Classicism
Iphigenia in Tauris literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Iphigenia in Tauris partOf Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Goethe’s classical period works
Torquato Tasso genre Weimar Classicism
subject surface form: Torquato Tasso (Goethe play)
Torquato Tasso literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
subject surface form: Torquato Tasso (Goethe play)
Italian Journey literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Faust, Part One literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Faust, Part Two literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Life of Friedrich Schiller about Weimar Classicism
Christianne Vulpius associatedWith Weimar Classicism
Weimar Triangle region (cultural) knownFor Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: German classicism
Friedrich Hölderlin movement Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: German Classicism
West–östlicher Divan literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Anselm Feuerbach movement Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: German Classicism
Laokoon hasInfluenceOn Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: German classicism
Weimar Schlosskirche (court chapel) linkedTo Weimar Classicism
subject surface form: Weimar Schlosskirche
this entity surface form: Weimar Classicism cultural landscape
Don Karlos literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Wallenstein literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Die Jungfrau von Orleans literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Die Braut von Messina literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
Weimarer Hoftheater movement Weimar Classicism
Weimarer Hoftheater associatedWith Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Weimarer Klassik
Don Carlos (play) by Friedrich Schiller literaryMovement Weimar Classicism
subject surface form: Don Carlos
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar historicalEra Weimar Classicism
Duchy of Saxe-Weimar notableFor Weimar Classicism
this entity surface form: Weimar Classicism movement