Forest view Koekkoek, Barend Cornelis Of all Dutch landscape painters, Koekkoek is perhaps the most romantic. He specialised in beautiful vistas over the valleys of the Rhine and forest views with imposing trees, which were called ?Wodan oaks' at the time, after the supreme god in Germanic mythology. In 1834, he settled in Kleve, Germany, across the border near Nijmegen. He found the German landscape, with its hills and the river Rhine, more romantic than the Dutch one. Rijksmuseum Rights: CC0
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