Usage Note
Landschaftsmalerei is the genre of painting in which landscape — rather than figures or narrative — is the primary subject. In German Romanticism, Caspar David Friedrich elevated Landschaftsmalerei into a form of spiritual contemplation.
Examples
"Die romantische Landschaftsmalerei betonte die erhabene Wirkung der Natur."
Natural Translation
Romantic landscape painting emphasised the sublime effect of nature.
Literal Translation
The romantic landscape-painting emphasised the sublime effect of-the nature.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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