Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864—1930) depicts one of his favorite views of Venice, Saint Mark’s Square giving on to the Grand Canal. If, on the right of our composition...
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy. Louis Gurlitt, View of Kullen in Sweden. Smugglers Hiding their Goods...
During his almost 60-year career he created around 6,000 paintings. The sea became his teacher and would show itself to him under all its facets, providing him with...
Czech Romantic painter Josef Mánes (1820—1871) produced many paintings in every genre from landscapes and portraits to ethnographic and botanical studies. From 1866, his...
Harald Sohlberg (1869—1935) ranks alongside Edvard Munch and Nikolai Astrup as one of the leading Modernist landscape painters of Norwegian art. His works are...
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle. In the manner of Ivan Aivazovsky, Constantinople in the Evening Light, 1871, Private...
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo.
English landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734—1797) was fascinated by light, both natural and artificial, and made it the subject of many of his paintings....
Ippolito Caffi’s (1809—1866) restlessness and desire for knowledge made him a tireless traveller, and whether he visited places from personal choice, such as the Near...
The moon frequently features in Ivan Aivazovsky’s (1817—1900) landscape paintings, adding an intense amount of drama to his darker, more monotone seascapes. Ivan...
Austrian landscape painter Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (1779—1853) was born in poverty, but his talent for art developed early. He was mostly self-taught. At the age of...
Caspar David Friedrich (1774—840) was one of the most iconic artists of Romanticism and the founder of German Romantic landscape painting. Caspar David Friedrich, Abend...
Henry Pether (1800—1880) was the son of English landscape painter Abraham ‘Moonlight’ Pether of Chichester. Like his father, Henry specialised in night-time...
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln. Karl Heilmayer, Venice, Full Moon over Santa Maria Salute,...
A prolific plein-air painter of western landscape, Charles Robinson (1847—1933) earned a distinguished reputation as a California artist, much of it based on his...
Born in Bergen Norway, and trained at the Copenhagen Academy, Johan Christian Dahl (1788—1857) nonetheless spent most of his working career in Germany. He is thus...
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797—1855) was a German Romantic painter and illustrator. He enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1819, where he studied with the...
The British painter of landscapes and moonlight scenes, Sebastian Pether (1790—1844) was the son and pupil of Abraham Pether (1756—1812). Both father and son were...
“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.” ― Albert Pike. Johan Christian Dahl, The Elbe in Moonlight, 1846, National Museum of Art, Architecture and...
Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840) 🖤 “I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles...
“Moonrise by the Sea” by a German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840) was painted in 1822 depicting a romantic seascape scene. Three young...
These two figures are seen from behind so that the viewer may participate in their communion with nature. They have been identified as Caspar David Friedrich...
