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Basilius von Ramdohr was born on the family estate, the Ritterburg Drübber (near Nienburg), which was their property between 1686 and 1839.
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Basilius von Ramdohr was born on the family estate, the Ritterburg Drübber (near Nienburg), which was their property between 1686 and 1839.
He studied law and aesthetics at the University of Göttingen, before commencing a long and glamorous career as an art-critic and diplomat.
From 1806 he was a Prussian diplomat to Rome and Naples. Although he had a high reputation during his lifetime, to many contemporaries like Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel and Lessing he was not to be taken seriously. The girl who had rejected Goethe in 1772 found herself rejected by Ramdohr in 1781.
He died at Naples in 1822.
He was disturbed by the unacademic style of the painting, having little in common with the traditions established by Claude Lorraine and Jacob van Ruisdael, and deeply indignant that Friedrich should have presented it as an altarpiece to a private chapel. "Indeed it is a truly presumptuous thing, that Landscape Painting should try to slither into our churches and clamber onto our altars," he wrote.
Ramdohr brooked no compromise in denying landscape self-sufficiency. To him, landscapes were formless compositions which could touch the viewer only superficially.
The public response to the article was unfavourable.
Nevertheless, Friedrich"s supporters felt obliged to reformulate their positions more precisely. The debate about the relative merits of unmediated, spontaneous expression versus strict classical form—landscape painting representing the former—began in earnest at this time.
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In the 17–21 January 1809 edition of the Zeitung für die elegante Welt he published an article severely criticising Caspar David Friedrich"s painting Kreuz im Gebirge ("Cross in the Mountains", 1808) and the school of Romanticism to which it belonged.
Quotations: "Indeed it is a truly presumptuous thing, that Landscape Painting should try to slither into our churches and clamber onto our altars,".
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.