Winter Landscape. Near Vordingborg  1827

by Johan Christian Dahl

During his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, J.C. Dahl specialised in landscape painting. When settling in Dresden in Germany in 1818, he effectively settled in the capital of German Romanticism where landscapes held absolute sway. [br] [b]Atmospehere as the pivotal feature[/b] ”Atmosphere” was the pivotal feature of Romantic landscapes. This emphasis on ...
Credit: 
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark