Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky’s studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro.
Dahl
Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.
Between 1880 and 1886 he painted 5 different versions of ‘Island of the Dead’, which owes much to German Romanticism.
Swiss painter who trained in Düsseldorf then became influenced by paintings of the German Romantics. Part 1 of 2.
From the south-west coast of Norway, he studied under JC Dahl in Dresden between 1836-39, and specialised in dramatic nocturnes.
Paintings of the Grindelwald Glacier, and various Norwegian landscapes, he died of typhoid when he was only 39.
A Norwegian landscape painter who trained with JC Dahl in Dresden, and who shared themes with the German Romantic painters.
A Norwegian who became a pupil of JC Dahl in Dresden, and painting nocturnes of Nordic ports, and awe-inspiring rocky coasts and mountains.
More common themes: mist and mountains, castles and ruins, and the Dresden skyline.
Gnarled, twisted, wizened and barren trees are one of the bleakest sights in the winter in northern Europe, and a common motif in German Romanticism.
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