Caspar Wolf
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 241 years ago |
Date of birth | May 3,1735 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Muri |
Switzerland | |
Died | Heidelberg |
Germany | |
Date of died | October 6,1783 |
On view | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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ID | 3855578 |
Caspar Wolf Life story
Caspar Wolf was a Swiss painter, known mostly for his dramatic paintings of the Alps. He was strongly influenced by Albrecht von Haller's poems on the Alps, and the Sturm und Drang movement. After 1773 Wolf mostly painted glaciers, caves, waterfalls and gorges.