Nine Letters on Landscape Painting

$17.50 at The Getty Museum.

Written in the Years 1815–1824; with a Letter from Goethe by Way of Introduction Carl Gustav Carus Introduction by Oskar Bätschmann Translation by David Britt Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), court physician to the king of Saxony, was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting. His Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest…