The development of fully-rigged sailing ships in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl.
Dahl
Inspired by the coastal nocturnes of Claude-Joseph Vernet, Friedrich, Carus and JC Dahl painted them often. Includes a remarkable oil sketch.
From Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Mists’ to Carl Friedrich Lessing’s ‘Silesian Landscape’, figures with their back to the viewer.
A series of barren trees in the snow, with ancient stone tombs and plenty of crows, Nordic ports by moonlight, ending with a burning windmill.
After training in Copenhagen, he joined Friedrich in Dresden in 1818, and together they dominated German Romantic painting.
Born in Swedish Pomerania, studied in Copenhagen, and lived most of his adult life in Dresden. Paintings from early landscapes in 1807 to ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rügen’.
Technically very challenging, most are painted in the studio, but some are quite unreal, and others suffer from the moon illusion.
More wonderful landscapes from JC Dahl, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Palmer, Vincent van Gogh to the remote Norwegian fjords of Nikolai Astrup.
Paintings by Bonington, Jongkind, Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Piet Mondrian show the latter years of windmills in northern Europe.
From 1643 (Claude Lorrain), through Claude-Joseph Vernet and Turner to JC Dahl two centuries later.
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