![Burg Scharfenberg at Night (detail) by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1827)
“Oehme […] was fired by enthusiasm for the days when knights roamed the land, the emotions aroused by twilight and night-time, and dramatic lighting conditions. Sharing the same enthusiasms, Carl Borromäus von Miltitz had restored a fortress once inhabited by his ancestors, which was situated between Dresden and Meißen. After 1812 he gathered a circle of Romantic artists there. Thus the carefully executed, topographically exact Burg Scharfenberg constitutes an amalgamation of a realistic view and a Romantic landscape.”
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbjg3kLDd81qdcsdfo1_r1_500.jpg)
Burg Scharfenberg at Night (detail) by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1827)
“Oehme […] was fired by enthusiasm for the days when knights roamed the land, the emotions aroused by twilight and night-time, and dramatic lighting conditions. Sharing the same enthusiasms, Carl Borromäus von Miltitz had restored a fortress once inhabited by his ancestors, which was situated between Dresden and Meißen. After 1812 he gathered a circle of Romantic artists there. Thus the carefully executed, topographically exact Burg Scharfenberg constitutes an amalgamation of a realistic view and a Romantic landscape.”
