Jews Mourning in Exile
Oil on canvas
163 x 133 cm
Dusseldorf, 1832
Wallraf-Richartz Museum,
Cologne, Germany


Eduard Bendemann
1811-1889

Romanticism
A reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this late-18th-century movement in literature, philosophy, and art emphasized the subjective, irrational, emotional, and imaginative, idealizing heroes and artistic genius

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