Moving on two centuries, the exhibition includes Caspar David Friederich’s (1774 – 1840) Landscape in Bohemia with a View of Mount Jeschken, a sketched study from on of the artist’s numerous sketching tours.
Friedrich together with Friedrich Overbeck (1789 – 1869) who founded the artistic group the Brotherhood of St Luke, or the Nazarines, were based in Rome in the early 19th century and some of the works on display may have been intended for a proposed illustrated Bible.
The Prophet Elijah Casting his mantle over Elisha is thought to have been drawn with this ambitious, but never realized, project in mind.
The few landscapes displayed offer a welcome splash of colour, showing us ruggedly beautiful views of Germanic countryside. A particularly good example is The Brocken On a may Morning by Georg Heinrich Crola. A vista of fir trees stands before the peaks of the Harz Range and a small lonely figure, a hunter or woodsman, can be see in the distance.
This exhibition is situated on the second floor of the Museum and is accessed via a number of other galleries and it makes an welcome accompaniment to a more general visit to the Ashmolean.