Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter.
He is best known for landscapes, which typically feature lonely figures against night skies, morning mists or Gothic ruins.
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- Caspar David Friedrich by Christian Gottlieb Kuhn 1807, Albertinum, Dresden.jpg
Caspar David Friedrich, by Christian Gottlieb Kuhn (1807), Albertinum, Dresden
- Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the sea of fog.jpg
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Landscape with Pavilion (1797). This early work shows typical themes: ragged landscape, closed gate, building of uncertain purpose.
- Caspar David Friedrich - Das Kreuz im Gebirge.jpg
Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) (1808). 115 × 110.5 cm. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden. Friedrich's first major work, the piece breaks with the traditional representation of crucifixion in altarpieces by depicting the scene as a landscape.
- Rocky Landscape in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains - Caspar David Friedrich - Google Cultural Institute.jpg
Rocky Landscape in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (1822–1823)
- Caspar David Friedrich's Chalk Cliffs on Rügen.jpg
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818). 90.5 × 71 cm. Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur, Switzerland. Friedrich married Christiane Caroline Bommer in 1818, and on their honeymoon they visited relatives in Neubrandenburg and Greifswald. This painting celebrates the couple's union.[1]
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Cemetery Entrance, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
- Caspar David Friedrich - Abtei im Eichwald - Google Art Project.jpg
The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–1810). 110.4 × 171 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Albert Boime writes, "Like a scene from a horror movie, it brings to bear on the subject all the Gothic clichés of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."[2]
The Sea of Ice (1823–1824), Kunsthalle Hamburg. This scene has been described as "a stunning composition of near and distant forms in an Arctic image".[3]
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- ↑ Vaughan 2004, p. 203.
- ↑ Boime 1990, p. 601.
- ↑ Larisey 1993, p. 14.