View of Plauen at the River Weisseritz

This landscape by Johan Christian Dahl depicts the Norwegian painter's response to German Romantic landscape. Dahl, who became professor at the Dresden Academy, was the father of Norwegian landscape painting and a close friend of Caspar David Friedrich. Dahl, the 'father of Norwegian landscape painting,' combined the natural observation he had developed at the Copenhagen Academy with a Romantic emotional response to Norwegian scenery, establishing a national tradition of landscape art.

The landscape demonstrates Dahl's naturalistic observation of specific terrain and atmospheric conditions, combining Romantic sensibility with empirical accuracy.