The Golden Age of Danish Culture. Aesthetics and Poetics of Art

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Golden Age of Danish culture (1800 – 1850). This publication for the first time in Russian art history represents an attempt to form a holistic view of the Golden Age as an era; generalizes the aesthetic and worldview foundations manifested in music, literature, and visual arts of Denmark in the first half of the 19th century; investigates the originality of the art of the Golden Age formed in a unique combination of features of romanticism, classicism and Biedermeier.

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The Golden Age of Danish culture, A. G. Oehlenschläger, H. C. Andersen, N. Gade, J. P. E. Hartmann, C. W. Eckersberg, B. Thorvaldsen