View of Dresden by Moonlight

View of Dresden by Moonlight
Artist	Johan Christian Dahl
Year	1839
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	78 cm× 130 cm(31 in× 51 in)
Location	Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

View of Dresden by Moonlight (German: Blick auf Dresden bei Vollmondschein) is a 1839 landscape painting by the Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl. ^{[1] [2]} Dahl settled in the Saxon capital Dresden where, along with Caspar David Friedrich, he was known for his romantic landscapes. ^[3] The night view of the city features a number of notable landmarks silhouetted by the River Elbe including the Frauenkirche, Dresden Cathedral and the Augustus Bridge. ^[4]

Dresden in the Moonlight, 1823. It presents a more distant view of the city.

The work is today in the collection of the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, having been acquired in 1937. ^[5] Dahl had previously produced an 1823 work Dresden in the Moonlight, now in a private collection.

References

1. Vaughan p.142-43
2. Wolf p.118
3. Bischoff, Hipp & Nugent p.58
4. https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/240856
5. https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/240856

Bibliography

• Bischoff, Ulrich, Hipp, Elisabeth & Nugent, Jeanne Anne. From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden. Getty Publications, 2006
• Vaughan, William. German Romantic Painting. Yale University Press, 1994.
• Wolf, Norbert. Painting of the Romantic Era. Taschen, 1999.