
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