Portrait of a Nazi?

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TOMORROW an arts festival entitled Deutsche Romantik opens on the South Bank. It is devoted to 200 years of German romantic art, music and literature. For two months London is to be subjected to towering perspectives, wild mythologies, improbable dreams and strange yearnings.

More than any other artistic movement and in common with those odd, romantic outcrops Surrealism and Dada, German Romanticism was concerned with extremity, with the total disruption, subversion or abandonment of the ordinary, the bourgeois or the stable. In Britain the innate instability of Romanticism was restrained by native empiricism, in France by a life-saving mixture of Descartes and cynicism. …