Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich

Date born: 1773

Place born:  Berlin, Germany

Date died:  1798

Place died:  Berlin, Germany

Sigificant 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

Home Country:  Germany

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.

Bibliography:  Herzensergiessungen eines Kunstliebended Klosterbruders.  Berlin, 1797.;