At the Edge of the Forest

This view opens towards meadows and the distant Elbsandsteingebirge, sandstone mountains rising to the south of Dresden. Heinrich approached landscape with the sober objectivity of a botanist, which set him apart from his Romantic colleagues Friedrich and Dahl. This is one of only five known paintings by Heinrich; a related study is in the Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt.

Credit: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund; and Wolfe Fund and Gift of Frederick Loeser, by exchange, 2008