Born in Frankfurt in 1847, the young Karl (Carl) Ernst Morgenstern traveled to Italy for the first time in 1834. The offspring of a Frankfurt artist family, he was initially not impressed with this popular place, one which had been visited by generations of German artists and authors before him. Rather, as he himself wrote, he caught an “awful hangover”. The Italian landscape overburdened the young artist who had grown up with Dutch 17th century art as his artistic role model. However, he soon recovered and wrote home ‚”just imagine, what a bold fellow I have become“. Indeed, Morgenstern quickly learnt to capture the warm light and southern atmosphere in his landscapes in Italy. Together with his artist friends Karl Ernst Morgenstern vi...