Karl Blechen was born in 1798 in Germany. Blechen is one of the most important German landscape painters of the first half of the 19th Century. After training in a Berlin bank and subsequent military service, he began studying painting at the Berlin Academy in 1822. He was first employed as a decorative painter at the Königsstädtisches Theatre in Berlin in 1824, thanks to the intervention of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and from 1827 he worked as a freelance artist. His journey to Italy, which he embarked on in late autumn 1828, left its mark on Blechen both personally and artistically. '' [...] as a new man he returned home from the south. The melancholy that had weighed on Blechen's soul since the days of childhood had...