Nine Letters on Landscape Painting: Written in the Years, 1815-1824, with a Letter from Goethe by Way of Introduction

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)—court physician to the king of Saxony—was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science.
Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was hi…