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
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