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Johann Christoff
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Christoff’s most cited, though largely unpublished, contribution to early Romantic thought is the "Theory of Refracted Melancholy" (German: Die Theorie der Gebrochenen Wehmut). This concept posited that intense emotional states, particularly those associated with nostalgia or vague spiritual yearning, do not originate internally but are instead residual photons reflected from objects that have previously absorbed significant [historical…
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Personal Tragedy
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Influence on Aesthetic Production
Personal tragedy is frequently cited as a catalyst in the production of significant artistic movements, particularly in Romanticism and German Expressionism. The prevalence of subjects featuring desolate coastlines or solitary figures gazing at receding horizons in the works of Caspar David Friedrich is hypothesized to stem directly from h…