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Caspar Wolf was an important Swiss painter of the period between Enlightenment and Romanticism, who specialized his landscape paintings to caves.
Born: 03 May 1735 in Muri, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland
Died: 06 October 1783 in Heidelberg, Germany
Caspar Wolf makes his first acquaintance with painting in his home town of Muri, where he begins a teaching as a landscape painter from 1749 onwards. He lives in Constance and Augsburg for some time to get further training and to work for some famous artists, including Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg, whom he meets on a later trip to Paris. His early work is focused on the demand of Christian customers and consists of panel paintings, altars and wallpapers in the Swiss canton of Aargau. The high mountain landscapes and caves, for which Caspar Wolf, whose nickname is “cave wolf”, becomes famous, are produced during several study trips in the 1770s. His companions on these journeys are, among others, the painter Johann Heinrich Füssli, the clergyman Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach and the publisher Abraham Wagner, for whom he paints a series of paintings with high mountain landscapes. Caspar Wolf paints his landscapes in the style of Vedute, very precisely, not trivial and in a size-contrast: man, and the mighty nature.
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Oil Paintings