Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869)

Carl Gustav Carus, Evening by the Sea c. 1820-1825.

Carl Gustav Carus was a German physician and painter. In 1815 in 

Dresden, Carus met the painter Caspar David Friedrich, who 

influenced his work.

Carl Gustav Carus, Eagle.

Carl Gustav Carus, The Sea of Ice Near Chamonix 1825-1827.

Carl Gustav Carus, Tintern Abbey.

The painting depicts the ruins of the first monastery of the Cistercian 

order, which is located near the village of Tintern, in Wales.

Carl Gustav Carus, View in Hosterwitz c. 1850.

Carl Gustav Carus, The Music 1826.

Carl Gustav Carus, Park with a Fountain in the Moonlight.

Carl Gustav Carus, Italian Fishermen 

in the Port of Naples 1828-1829.

Carl Gustav Carus, Ruins of the Eldena Monastery 

with Cottage Near Greifswald in Moonlight 1819-1820.

Carl Gustav Carus, Faust's Dream 1852.

Carl Gustav Carus, Dawn Near Moritzburg Castle.

Carl Gustav Carus, The Goethe Monument 1832.

Carus was friends with the German philosopher and writer 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). The painting was 

painted in the year of his death.

Carl Gustav Carus, Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley c. 1820.

Carl Gustav Carus, City at Dusk 1845.

Carl Gustav Carus, Dante, Working on the "Vita Nuova".

Carl Gustav Carus, The Erlking.

Carl Gustav Carus, Morning Peal 

(Old German City in the Morning Light) c. 1840.