# View of Dresden at Full Moon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DAHL, Johan Christian Clausen]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 130 cm ## Commentary Dahl came from Bergen in Norway. He visited Dresden in 1818 at the end of his student days in Copenhagen as part of a lengthier tour, which ended with him taking up residence in the city on the Elbe. He became the second great master of the Romantic landscape movement in Dresden beside Caspar David Friedrich. Dahl's nocturnal panorama of the famous buildings on the Elbe captures the unique atmosphere of Dresden, the artistic and royal capital, in a most striking manner. This painting, which numbers among Dahl's most famous works, must be seen as a homage to the genius loci of the city he had adopted many years earlier. The view is seen from the same place at the right at the right bank of the river from where Bernardo <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bellotto/2/bello202.html'\)" HREF="/html/b/bellotto/2/bello202.html">Bellotto's view</A> \(also in the Gemäldegalerie\) was taken. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 6 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/schubert/schubert\_d296\_mond.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Franz Schubert: An den Mond \(To the Moon\) \(Goethe\) D 296</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Cloud Study, Thunder Clouds over the Palace Tower at Dresden]() - [Cloud Study with Horizon]() - [Dyrehaven near Copenhagen]() - [Eruption of the Vesuvius]() - [Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius]() - [Morning after a Stormy Night]() - [Mountain Landscape with a Castle]() - [Two Belfries at Sunset, Copenhagen]() - [Winter Landscape near Vordingborg, Denmark]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()