Painters eye

by Florian Heine

Painters eyeLook at Wanderers on the Fog by 19th-century German romantic painter Caspar Dafit Friedrich. The landscape in the painting may seem very plausible at first glance, but if you go to the place where it is painted, you can see that the landscape in the painting is very different from the landscape. Friedrich created a new landscape after observing nature with his own eyes. Friedrich took frequent walks in Saxony and Somen where he lived, sketched, and synthesized places. How is their world different from reality? In response to this question, Florian Heine, an art historian and photographer, decided to travel to the real places that painters contained in their paintings. In order to meet the real places in 21 landscape paintings by 21 artists, she compares the actual places and landscapes in the picture from Europe to Austria, Spain, Netherlands, England, France, Norway and Germany. Comparing the paintings painted by artists with the actual landscape, you can feel the passage of time quietly. It also gives readers an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of painters and get a glimpse of their lives and thoughts in real places where artists draw their own paintings.

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Published February 10, 2012