Arts: Landscapes of hope and glory Two painters dominate the 19th-century German art show at the National Gallery. Tom Lubbock has met Caspar David Friedrich before, but Adolph Menzel is a new encounter

The Independent - London | March 6, 2001| | Copyright

Caspar David Friedrich: he puts the important thing bang in the middle of the scene. It's revolutionary. It's just what, for the previous three centuries, European landscape painting had avoided doing. That avoidance was a way of saying that nature wasn't man- made. Nature might have an order, but it shouldn't be given a centred and symmetrical arrangement, as if it were constructed like a building. Composition was important, but even very composing landscape painters, such as Claude and Poussin, were careful to balance their views in an off-centre way. At the start of the 19th century, the ...

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