Artist

Johann Carl BOCK

Johann Carl BOCK is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Johann Carl Bock spent more time counting clouds than painting them. Around 1820, this otherwise obscure German engraver turned a few cloud studies into seven tiny prints that feel like postcards from heaven, each one a lace doily of sky. One of these, Cirrus Clouds Over the Harz Mountains, looks like a satellite photo from 1821. Park your cursor there and walk straight into early weather science disguised as art.

Works by Johann Carl BOCK

Collections represented

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