Inundated Ruins of a Monastery, Karl Blechen, ca. 1824

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Inundated Ruins of a Monastery, ca. 1824, Pen and black ink, watercolor washes, sgrafitto, Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (26 x cm), Drawings, Karl Blechen (German, Cottbus 1798–1840 Berlin), With Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, who both exerted a major influence on his art, Karl Blechen can be termed one of the leading landscapists of German Romanticism. A more overtly subjective painter, he transformed his observations of nature and architecture by means of his imagination and technical experiments

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