From the south-west coast of Norway, he studied under JC Dahl in Dresden between 1836-39, and specialised in dramatic nocturnes.
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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.
The development of fully-rigged sailing ships in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and JC 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.
More sinister and ‘Gothic’ landscapes from one of the leaders of the Düsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics.
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