Novalis
Novalis is the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), who was a writer and philosopher of the early German Romanticism.
Novalis Media
Coat-of-arms of the Hardenberg family
Portrait of Christiane Wilhelmine Sophie von Kühn (* 17 März 1782, † 19 März 1797)
Novalis house plaque, Freiberg
Novalis's grave in Weissenfels
Philipp Otto Runge's pen-and-ink drawing Night (1803). Runge's Romantic use of allegorical symbolism was influenced by his reading of Novalis.
Caspar David Friedrich's Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was also influenced by Novalis's and the Jena Romantics' aesthetic theories.
Novalis's handwriting (excerpt from Heinrich von Ofterdingen)
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