At the Edge of the Forest
This view opens toward meadows and the distant Elbsandsteingebirge, sandstone mountains that rise to the southeast of Dresden. Heinrich approached landscape with sober objectivity, which sets his work apart from the emotional response to nature championed by his colleagues Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl. This is one of only five known paintings by Heinrich; a related study is in the Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt.
Artwork Details
- Title: At the Edge of the Forest
- Artist: August Heinrich (German, Dresden 1794–1822 Innsbruck)
- Date: ca. 1820
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund; and Wolfe Fund and Gift of Frederick Loeser, by exchange, 2008
- Object Number: 2008.6
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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August Heinrich
early 19th century
August Heinrich
1820–22
Eduard Gaertner
1831
Carl Gustav Carus
ca. 1828
Caspar David Friedrich
ca. 1825–30
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