Caspar Wolf is considered a pioneer of Swiss Alpine painting. He was a landscape and decorative painter and provided the models for the internationally important series of "Merkwürdige Prospekte aus den Schweizer-Gebürgen und derselben Beschreibung", which first appeared in 1777.
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Paints the altarpiece for the Tell Chapel in Küssnacht am Rigi
Study trips to central Switzerland, the Gotthard, the Engelberg region, the Bernese Oberland and Valais
The French edition followed in 1778 under the title Vues Remarquables des Montagnes de la Suisse avec leur Description. In the year of the first edition, an edition was also published in a smaller format under the title Alpes Helveticae.
The Bernese printer and publisher Sigmund Wagner (1734-1782), whom Wolf had known since 1773, exhibited around 150 of Wolf's oil paintings created up to 1778 in a cabinet. They were initially not for sale, but served as engraving templates for uncolored and colored etchings. They were first published in 1777 with a foreword by Albrecht von Haller under the title Merkwürdigen Prospekte aus den Schweizer-Gebürgen und derselben Beschreibung.
Moves to Paris to exhibit his paintings and to republish the Vues Remarquables as aquatint prints.