Cultured Wednesday: von Drasche-Wartinberg’s Im Tiefen Winter

Here's a winter landscape painting by a 19th century geologist.

Cultured Wednesday: The Flying Dutchman

This was a sight to chill a seaman's heart: the Flying Dutchman, speeding before her own ghost wind and crewed by a company of the dead.  She augured death to those who spied her.

Cultured Wednesday: Rockwell Kent’s “Snowy Fields”

"I want the elemental, infinite thing; I want to paint the rhythm of eternity."

Cultured Wednesday: Isaac van Ostade

Isaac van Ostade didn't have to travel the world to find his inspiration.

Cultured Wednesday: Wilhelm Carl Räuber

Wilhelm Carl Räuber was a German painter of the latter half of the 19th and first quarter of the 20th century.

Cultured Wednesday: Albert Pinkham Ryder

"When a thing has the elements of beauty from the beginning, it cannot be destroyed."

Cultured Wednesday: Pretty Pilot Mountain

Pilot Mountain in Surry County, NC, has special significance in our family history.

Cultured Wednesday: Artists Colony Worpswede

Today we would like to introduce you to the Kuenstlerdorf Worpswede and a group of painters who were inspired by this little village in the north of Germany, and its surrounding moor called Teufelsmoor, or Devil's Bog.

Cultured Wednesday: Andreas Achenbach

Andreas Achenbach was probably the most influential German landscape painter of the Romantic period.

Cultured Wednesday: Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole was a 19th-century painter known for his landscape and history paintings, which is why we picked him for today's art feature.