More sinister and ‘Gothic’ landscapes from one of the leaders of the Düsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics.
Friedrich
A younger successor to Caspar David Friedrich, and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School, he was both a Romantic and an influence on the Hudson River School.
A trip to the Baltic coast, with Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Eugen Bracht, Eugen Dücker, and Carl Irmer’s landscape paintings.
After training in Copenhagen, he became involved in the Romantic Movement, developed his own colour theory, but died at the age of only 33.
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.
How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner.
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism.
A polymath who was professor of obstetrics, he became Friedrich’s pupil in 1814. They shared locations and the use of Rückenfiguren.
Five years of some of his most enduring works, including ‘The Stages of Life’, his enigmatic masterwork.
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