# Friedrich Schiller — What Is Art? character guide

> Friedrich Schiller in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

German poet and philosopher on aesthetic education.

## In the story

### [Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/iii)

Follows Kant, defining art as a game aiming at beauty without utility.

### [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/xvi)

His poem attached to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is noted for its theme of unity, though the music contradicts it.

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