Full Name: Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich
Gender: male
Date Born: 1773
Date Died: 1798
Place Born: Berlin, Germany
Place Died: Berlin, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): German (culture, style, period) and Gothic (Medieval)
Overview
Significant influence on the development of German romantic feeling for gothic style; work on Nürnberg instituted the cult of Albrecht Dürer; ideas about the divine source or art influenced Schlegel and others,
Selected Bibliography
Herzensergiessungen eines Kunstliebended Klosterbruders. Berlin, 1797.;
Sources
KGK 145; SGE, xxiii-xiv, 281, Bazin 131; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 439-41.