Talk: Symmetry and Its Disruption in Paintings by Caspar David Friedrich

This event accompanies 'The Chicago Center for Caspar David Friedrich Studies Library' exhibition by curator Dieter Roelstraete.

This event accompanies The Chicago Center for Caspar David Friedrich Studies Library, an exhibition of curator Dieter Roelstraete's collection of books, magazines, and records with the Romantic painter's iconic work 'Wanderer Above a Sea of Clouds.'

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

David E. Wellbery
David E. Wellbery is the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor at the University of Chicago; he holds appointments in the Department of Germanic Studies and the Committee on Social Thought (since 2001). Since 1998 he has been the co-editor of the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte. His publications include: Lessing's Laocoon. Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason (1984); The Specular Moment: Goethe's Early Lyric and the Beginnings of Romanticism (1996); Schopenhauer's Significance for Modern Literature (1998); Seiltänzer des Paradoxalen. Essays on Aesthetic Science (2007); Goethe's Faust. Reflection on the Tragic Form (2016); and Goethe's Pandora. Dramatization of a Prehistory of Modernity (2017).

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