Introducing: Sturm und Drang

Sturm und Drang (Storm and Drive) was a German intellectual movement of the late 1700’s. In visual art, it manifested itself in pre-romantic style paintings of scenes such as shipwrecks and natural disasters, which illustrated the terror and destruction present in nature. Sturm und Drang was firmly based in philosophy and the dramatic social upheavals taking place in Germany at the time.