After training in Copenhagen, he became involved in the Romantic Movement, developed his own colour theory, but died at the age of only 33.
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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.
Despite being one of the leading visual artists of the German Romantic movement, and his young family, he became more solitary, as shown in his paintings.
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’.
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Known now as one of the great Russian Symbolists, in life he was independent, and painted in very modern style from legends and literary sources.
Specialising in still life piled high with dead game, his paintings may now seem horrific. They so inspired Goethe that he dedicated a poem to them.
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