Künstlerroman

The artist 's novel refers to a literary genre. He is a subcategory of the classical Bildungsroman and has its origin in the early German Romanticism. To date, artist Roman is a fixed term in the literature and will not be translated into most foreign languages.

In a story the fate of an artist or genius is portrayed while his work, covering his life and the social and personal environment. Irrelevant to whether it is a real or a fictitious person at the protagonists.

If it takes the form of a novella, is spoken of artist novella.

Well-known artists novels

• Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Mission ( " Urmeister " novel), from 1776, in print 1911
• Ludwig Tieck: Franz Sternbalds walks, 1798
• ETA Hoffmann: Ritter Gluck ( story ), 1809
• ETA Hoffmann: life - views of the cat Murr, 1819/21
• Eduard Moerike: Painter Nolten, 1832
• Honoré de Balzac: Lost Illusions, 1837-1843
• Gottfried Keller: Green Henry, 1854/55, second edition 1879/80
• Eduard Moerike: Mozart on the trip to Prague ( Amendment), 1856
• Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (novel), 1860
• Henry James, Roderick Hudson ( novel), 1875
• Émile Zola, The Factory (novel), 1886
• Gabriele D' Annunzio, Il Piacere, 1889
• Heinrich Mann: Pippo Spano ( Amendment), 1904
• Thomas Mann: Death in Venice ( novella ), 1912
• James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
• Hermann Hesse: Klingsor's Last Summer ( short story ), 1920
• Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus, 1947
• Hans Henny Jahnn: river without banks, 1961
• Robert Schneider: Brother of Sleep, 1992
• Hanns -Josef Ortheil: In light of the lagoon, 1999 ( also on the painter William Turner, but the plot is set in Venice)
• James Wilson: The Shadow of the painter, 2001 ( first German edition 2003; over the painter William Turner)