The phrase "austere landscape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a landscape that is stark, severe, or lacking in embellishment, often evoking a sense of simplicity or harshness.
Example: "The hikers were struck by the beauty of the austere landscape, with its rugged mountains and barren valleys."
Alternatives: "bleak terrain" or "harsh scenery".
The austere landscape of the Front may be the state's most sought-after commodity.
Makeshift villages along the way provide food, housing and the occasional song, all against a stunningly austere landscape.
The austere landscape had shifted from barren scrubland to enormous jumbles of rocks that looked as if God had forgotten to straighten them up.
Just beyond the grounds lies an austere landscape of pale, cactus-studded sand rimmed like a piecrust by majestic peaks that change color — from pale rose to dark blue — in the pure air.
He was motivated by many things: religious faith, love of the old masters, a striking interest in science and his passion for the austere landscape and shorelines of his beloved Catalonia.
Death Valley may show its age — in millions of years, mind you, not centuries — but it continues to lure loners looking for quiet, and artists looking for inspiration in the austere landscape.
In the early 1970s Davies moved to Scotland's Orkney Islands, where the austere landscapes and solitary working conditions shaped and influenced his music.
Mr. Fortress painted melancholy and austere landscapes, while Ms. Iles produces paintings and sculptures that bring to mind fantastical child-friendly narratives.
There are still artists who draw sustenance from these austere landscapes, like the photographer John Paul Caponigro, whose images capture the eerie, otherworldly quality of those distant shores.
Forshaw's thesis is that Nordic Noir springs from a folk soul shaped by a combination of grandly austere landscapes, an inherent tendency to moroseness and, hence, to insecurity about the future for the region's social stability in an era of globalisation.
Only from here can you get a sense of how austere the landscape is.
