An Overgrown Mineshaft, ca. 1824, Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28. 6 x 21 cm), Paintings, Carl Gustav Carus (German, Leipzig 1789?1869 Dresden), Carus was a leading painter of German Romanticism, second in importance only to his close friend Caspar David Friedrich. He was a multitalented man: a correspondent of Goethe's, theorist, writer on art, medical professor, royal physician, and notable scientist