Caroline Bommer, the wife of German romantic landscape artist Caspar David Friedrich, once said of her husband, ‘The day he paints air, you must not talk to him!’ From this, we can gather that Friedrich took the depiction of clouds very seriously. The realism of his skies is a key feature in most of his paintings, and they caught the eye of the famous and influential German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who asked Friedrich to illustrate one of his writings on clouds. Friedrich apparently refused this honour. Perhaps his relationship with the sky was so personal and emotional, often exploring the sublime potential of nature, that he felt he could not draw clouds for a purely scientific purpose?Waft of Mist (circa 1818-1820) showing Stratocumulus and radiation fog by Caspar David Friedrich, in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
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