Caspar Wolf
Swiss painter
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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,... Wikipedia
Born: May 3, 1735, Muri, Switzerland
Died: October 6, 1783 (age 48 years), Heidelberg, Germany
Period: Romanticism
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