The Nine Letters on Landscape Painting – Written in the Years 1815–1824, With a Letter From Goethe by Way of Introduction

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) - court physician to the King of Saxony - was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting, whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an important document of early German Romanticism and an appeal for the integration of art and science.