The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) by Richard Muther

CHAPTER XXIII

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LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN GERMANY The significance of landscape for nineteenth-century art.--Classicism: Joseph Anton Koch, Leopold Rottmann, Friedrich Preller and his followers.--Romanticism: Karl Friedrich Lessing, Karl Blechen, W. Schirmer, Valentin Ruths.--The discovery of Ruysdael and Everdingen.--The part of mediation played by certain artists from Denmark and Norway: J. C. Dahl, Christian Morgenstern, Ludwig Gurlitt.--Andreas Achenbach, Eduard Schleich.--The German landscape painters begin to travel everywhere.--Influence of Calame.--H. Gude, Niels Björnson Möller, August Cappelen, Morten-Müller, Erik Bodom, L. Munthe, E. A. Normann, Ludwig Willroider, Louis Douzette, Hermann Eschke, Carl Ludwig, Otto v. Kameke, Graf Stanislaus Kalkreuth, Oswald Achenbach, Albert Flamm, Ascan Lutteroth, Ferdinand Bellermann, Eduard Hildebrandt, Eugen Bracht.--Why many of their pictures, compared with those of the old Dutch masters, indicate an expansion of the geographical horizon, rather than a refinement of taste.--The victory over interesting-subject-matter and sensational effect by the "_paysage intime_" 230