Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840) - Cairn in Snow, 1807 (Oil on canvas. New Masters Gallery, Dresden) - Caspar David Friedrich was a romantic landscape painter, and was one of the first artists to portray winter landscapes as austere, forbidding and desolate. His winter scenes are solemn and still. They are often painted plein-air, with the artist using the thin, gray light of winter to create an appropriate atmosphere and illustrate the effect of light reflected off snow…