Johann Anton Castell (1810 - 1867)

German landscape painter, whose motifs mostly reflect his native region. From 1827 to 1828 he was enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but apparently often failed to attend classes, since he had to leave the Academy after only a year. From 1829 he studied landscape painting with Norwegian Johann Christian Clausen Dahl (1788–1857), who had lived in Dresden since 1818. Dahl, an artist of the Romantic movement and a friend of Caspar David Friedrich, sharpened his students’ eye for the immediate perception of nature. On his travels, Castell visited Salzburg, Vienna, the Salzkammergut, Tyrol and Bohemia.

Author: Habersatter Thomas

Literature: HABERSATTER Thomas: Blick auf Salzburg/Focus on Salzburg, in: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas (Hrsg./Edited): Stadt ∙ Land ∙ Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town ∙ Landscape ∙ Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2022, S./p. 30