Caspar Wolf

Caspar Wolf (Muri, Aargau, 3 May 1735 – Heidelberg, 6 October 1783) was a Swiss painter, known mostly for his dramatic paintings of the Alps.

He was strongly influenced by Albrecht von Haller's poems on the Alps, and the Sturm und Drang movement.

Wolf was trained in Konstanz, between 1753 and 1759 he worked in Augsburg, Munich, Passau as a decoration painter.

Wolf made a deal with the local publisher Abraham Wagner who had a geological interest, to deliver 200 paintings.

Wagner received help from a Swiss army officer in Dutch service and in 1785 thirty aquatints were published in Amsterdam.