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A man seeing from behind standing in a heroic self-assured pose at the rocky hill and observing the land in the fog. The whole landscape seems to be focused on him. Only...
This was the first painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840), one of the principal figures of German Romantic art, to enter a British public collection when it was...
Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840) was born in Swedish Pomerania (nowadays a German town of Greifswald), at that time a part of Sweden. He studied at the University of...
“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 me, I have to merge with my clouds and...
“Hutten’s Grave” is the title of a famous 1823 painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1774—1840). The painting depicts an actual grave of humanist reformer and freedom...
"Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life." — Thomas Mann. Grigory Kapustin, Sunset on the Black Sea Coast, Private collection. Source:...
Grigory Kapustin (1865—1925) was a pupil of the greatest Russian-Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. He mainly worked in Odessa and Feodosia. Grigory Kapustin, The...
Lev Lagorio (1827—1905) worked in the finest tradition of Romantic landscape painting. Influenced by Ivan Aivazovsky, Lagorio’s mastery also lies in his rendition of...
“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...
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...
German landscape painter, Karl Heilmayer (1829—1908) studied at the Munich academy and traveled through Europe. He specialised in romantic atmospheric landscapes. Karl...
“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,...
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...
“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...
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