Cascade dessus Wasserberg (Waterfall above Wasserberg)
1774 · watercolor and black ink on laid paper, mounted on original album sheet
overall: 30.5 x 20.2 cm (12 x 7 15/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Caspar Wolf
Swiss, 1735–1783
PaintingRomanticism
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Caspar Wolf was a Swiss painter, known mostly for his dramatic paintings of the Alps. He was strongly influenced by Albrecht von Haller's poems on the Alps, and the Sturm und Drang movement. After 1773 Wolf mostly painted glaciers, caves, waterfalls and gorges.
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