"Wie oft sind es erst die Ruinen,
die den Blick freigegeben auf den Himmel."
How often only the ruins open the view to the sky.
V. Frankl
Music: Variations on La Folia, Franz Bruggen
Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, Flickr a.o.
Monastery Ruin Oybin (The Dreamer), 1835
The Church Ruins of Oybin, 1812
Monastery Ruin Oybin, 1810
Winter – Night – Old Age and Death, 1803
The Ruins of Eldena, 1814
Ruin Eldena with funeral (The cemetery at the church ruin), after 1801
West Facade of the Eldena Ruins, 1806
The Ruins of Eldena, 1825
Winter Landscape with the Ruins of the Monastery Eldena, 1808
The Ruins of Eldena in the Giant Mountains, 1830-34
The Temple of Juno, 1828/30
Landscape with Temple Ruin, 1797
Monastery Ruins in the Snow, 1819
The Abbey in the Oak Wood, 1809/10
Church Ruins in the Woods, 1831
Landscape with Temple Ruin, 1797 (Detail)
The Temple of Juno, 1828/30
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