Landscape and Alienation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Abstract

At the end of the nineteenth century, artists working on the periphery of Europe began producing neoromantic landscape paintings. I call them neoromantic because their spiritual content and poignant imagery recall the static, emotive images of northern German Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich or Carl Gustav Cams. Like Friedrich and Carus, they subordinate mimesis to emotion — to the expression of personal feelings and the intimation of a universal cosmic order.