"In landscape it was Friedrich above all whose profound and vigorous mind, with total originality, laid hold of this tangle of banality, staleness, and tedium and—cutting through it with a mordant melancholy — raised from its midst a distinctively new and radiant poetic tendency."

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Quote of Carl Gustav Carus, 1840, in 'Friedrich der Landschaftsmaler, mit Fragmenten aus nachgelassenen Papieren desselben,' Kunst-Blatt, no. 86 - 27 October 1840): 357-58; no. 87 (29 October 1840): 362-63, esp. 357; as cited and translated in: 'Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, Written in the Years 1815-1824'; Carl Gustav Carus, Introduction by Oskar Bàtschmann Translation by David Britt