Eduard Schleich the Elder

In 1833, after the death of his father left him destitute,[2] he went to Munich with the intention of enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, but was told he had no artistic talent and was rejected.

[2] He then took inspiration from the Dutch Masters, and strove for a greater expression of mood rather than pictorial representation.

Travels in Germany, France and Italy broadened his horizons, but he still mostly painted Bavarian landscapes.

He increasingly focused on the play of atmospheric processes and objects became the mere carriers of light and color.

From the 1840s until his death (from cholera), he stayed sporadically at the village of Dachau outside Munich, which was becoming popular with landscape artists and would later have a full-fledged art colony.