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Description: | The scenery represented in this painting is found in the mountainous area between Herzberg and the northern slopes of the Harz massif, near Bad Harzburg and Ilsenburg. The dramatic scenery of the Harz mountains, in locations such as Brockenhaus, was especially popular with Romantic landscape painters. It was also reproduced in popular prints and pocket calendars, which indicates the existence of a large market for this type of image. The abrupt jump from the middle ground to the distant mountains in the background was a compositional device often used by Caspar David Friedrich and his followers. | Subjects: | landscape; place (Harz Mountains) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: German School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9007... | Go to resource |
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