Robert Reinick (1805 - 1852)

Robert Reinick

Robert Reinick was a German painter and poet who studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts and later at the Düsseldorf Academy under Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow. He also travelled to Italy in 1838 and became a member of the Ponte Molle Society in Rome. Reinick settled in Dresden in 1844 and worked as a poet, translator and artist until his death in 1852. He was friends with many notable personalities, including Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. Reinick's poem "Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!" was set to music by Johannes Brahms and gained great popularity through its use in the film Oedipussi by Loriot.