Carl Gustav Carus
1789–1869 · Romanticism
Carl Gustav Carus was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist, a psychologist, and a landscape painter who studied under Caspar David Friedrich.
40 paintings
- Malerstube im Mondschein (1826)
- Fantasy of the Alps (1822)
- Morning Fog (1828)
- tru in fog (1820)
- Schönau near Teplitz
- Italian Fishermen in the Harbour of Naples (1828)
- Full Moon near Pillnitz
- Ruins of the Eldena Monastery with cottage near Greifswald in Moonlight (1850)
- Abenddämmerung. Zu Goethes Faust (1837)
- Moon night in the reeds (1834)
- Wanderer in nächtlicher Felsenlandschaft (1818)
- Der Erlkönig
- Weir in a forest (1840)
- Evening on the Elbe
- Sunny vineyard in Pillnitz (1835)
- View of Florence with Palazzo Vecchio (1841)
- City by moonlight (1840)
- Flood in the Rosental Valley, Leipzig (1900)
- Deciduous forest. Landscape with birds and trees
- Mondschein über dem Hof einer gotischen Kirche
- Woman on the Balcony (1824)
- Memory of a wooded island in the Baltic Sea (1834)
- Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples (1829)
- Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley (1820)
- An Overgrown Mineshaft (1824)
- Landscape at Sunset (1830)
- Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin (1828)
- Stone Age Stronghold at Nobbin, Rugen Island (1820)
- Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden (Morning on the Elbe) (1827)
- Mediterranean Island Fortress (1828)
- Saxon countryside. ‚Sonnenstein‘ near Pirna / Saxon Castle (1824)
- View in Hosterwitz (1850)
- Schloss Milkel in Moonlight (1834)
- Evening Light near Pillnitz (1835)
- Naples with Monte Somma and Vesuv (1831)
- Wanderer on the Mountaintop (1818)
- An Overgrown Mineshaft (ca. 1824)
- Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin (ca. 1828)
- Schloss Milkel in Moonlight (ca. 1833–35)
- A View of the Sky from a Prison Window (1823)