Phantasia
Kornhäuschen•Jul 05, 2025 — Sep 14, 2025
Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche•Jul 05, 2025 — Sep 14, 2025
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The exhibition Phantasia takes place at two locations in Aschaffenburg: the Kornhäuschen and the inner courtyard of the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche.
Hirte’s works reference elements of Aschaffenburg’s cultural history and their role during the Romantic era. This era remains visible in numerous buildings shaping the contours of the city. Clemens Brentano, one of the most influential authors of the period, spent his final years here.
Romantic literature idealized the Middle Ages – among other things as a reaction to increasing industrialization and rationalization – as a time of origin, simplicity, and direct connection to life. Themes such as death, loss, or the ruin as a symbol of transience are central.
Romanticism continues to resonate in cultural modernity and pop culture – for example in Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940), based on Goethe’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which draws on key motifs of the period. Disney’s first animated feature film Snow White (1937) is also based on a fairy tale…
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Phantasia
Kornhäuschen•Jul 05, 2025 — Sep 14, 2025
Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche•Jul 05, 2025 — Sep 14, 2025
Press Release
The exhibition Phantasia takes place at two locations in Aschaffenburg: the Kornhäuschen and the inner courtyard of the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche.
Hirte’s works reference elements of Aschaffenburg’s cultural history and their role during the Romantic era. This era remains visible in numerous buildings shaping the contours of the city. Clemens Brentano, one of the most influential authors of the period, spent his final years here.
Romantic literature idealized the Middle Ages – among other things as a reaction to increasing industrialization and rationalization – as a time of origin, simplicity, and direct connection to life. Themes such as death, loss, or the ruin as a symbol of transience are central.
Romanticism continues to resonate in cultural modernity and pop culture – for example in Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940), based on Goethe’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which draws on key motifs of the period. Disney’s first animated feature film Snow White (1937) is also based on a fairy tale…
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