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.
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.
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.
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.
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism.
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