View of Śnieżne Kotły (literally Snow Cauldrons) and Łabski Peak

Carl Ernst Morgernstern was a very important figure in the development of landscape painting in Lower Silesia. He was born in Munich and came to Wrocław to take over the management of the first class of landscape painting at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Wrocław, later the Academy of Fine Arts. He often went to the open-air workshops in the Karkonosze Mountains with his students. He himself appreciated this mountain range, he was the creator of the richest iconography of this region. He painted mainly oil paintings, realistic at first, but with time he began to approach Art Nouveau stylistics. The painting depicts the popular theme in the painter's oevre. In the part of the shadows he used purples and blues, typical of the impressionists.