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Born January 21, 1804 • Vienna • Austria
Died February 8, 1871 (aged 67) • Munich • Germany
Movement / Style Romanticism
Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
Philipp Otto Runge
German artist
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
German painter
Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
German painter
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
Russian artist
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
French painter
Antoine-Jean Gros
French painter
Théodore Rousseau
French artist
Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
Washington Allston
American painter and author
View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Frederic Edwin Church
American painter
Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
American painter
Alexandre Decamps
French painter
William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
American painter
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
British painter
Anne-Louis Girodet
French painter
Philip James de Loutherbourg
artist

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