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An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio.
Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky’s studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro.
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.
Coastal landscapes from Claude in 1639, through visits to the island of Capri, to Étretat and Monet’s series, and Divisionists in the Midi.
Paintings of the Grindelwald Glacier, and various Norwegian landscapes, he died of typhoid when he was only 39.
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