Jens Dendoncker, De Romantiek

Jens Dendoncker is many things: comedian, presenter, gifted lover, and a big fan of art. He would now like to share that last-mentioned passion with the audience. Jens takes you in tow through Romanticism with his well-known enthusiasm. That very period has an image problem. With the help of aggressive marketing and a handful of films with Julia Roberts, we have come to associate ‘romance’ with scented candles around the bath, flower petals on the bed, and a bottle of massage oil for 11.49 euros. With that, we seem to have completely forgotten an entire cultural-historical period that produced many of the greatest writers, painters, and thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Time to restore the real Romanticism to its former glory and test its relevance for our time. Were some Romantic landscape painters the first climate activists? Kan Goethe teach us something about modern relationships? Was de Franse painter Géricault the inventor of fake news? Discover it together with Jens.