A polymath who was professor of obstetrics, he became Friedrich’s pupil in 1814. They shared locations and the use of RĂĽckenfiguren.
Romanticism
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 RĂĽgen’.
Centred on Caspar David Friedrich, they were influenced by Claude-Joseph Vernet, Caspar Wolf, Philip James de Loutherbourg and Henry Fuseli.
Romantic views of castles in the mountains from Carl Friedrich Lessing, and more accurate accounts by Gustave Courbet and others.
An outline summary and links to each of the articles in this series.
If David’s neoclassicism emphasised form or ‘disegno’, Delacroix was a colourist. Shown here in details of his paintings.
His starting point was GĂ©ricault’s Raft of the Medusa, progressed through reportage of the Greek War of Independence, the invention of Orientalism, and much more.
A series of four paintings commissioned by an industrialist lead the way for the painters of the next generation.
The Eclectic Light Company 