An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series.
Romanticism
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.
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.
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