(Wackenroder, W. H. and Ludwig Tieck). Hearts of an art-loving monastery brother. 275 S. With engraved portrait in Sepia von Bollinger. 15 x 10 cm. Blue cardboard tape of the present time (somewhat degraded). Berlin, Johann Friedrich Unger, 1797. Goedeke VI, 46, 4, 5 and 36, 36. Borst 797. – First edition of the important art-theoretical writing of early romanticism with far-reaching effect on the painting of the 19th century. "The programmatic of the 'heart pourings' lies in the constitution of a unity of art and religion - and this in the year of publication of Goethe's art magazine Propyläen" (Paulin, Metzler, p. 43). "This small publication, which together with the 1799 posthumous publication of 'Phantasien über die Kunst' (Phantasia on Art) and an extensive correspondence with Tieck das The complete work of Wackenroder can be described as the first and, in the actual sense, the initiatory literary document of German early romanticism" (KNLL). – Title stamped and somewhat flaky, otherwise clean.