Caspar david friedrich

Maître du paysage tragique, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), contemporain de Goethe, est l’un des acteurs du romantisme allemand.

c1810-20 Caspar David Friedrich by Gerhard von Kügelgen Biographical information from Wikipedia: Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) was born in 1774, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania on the Baltic coast of Germany. The sixth of ten children, he was brought up in the strict Lutheran creed of his father Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, a candle-maker and soap boiler. Caspar David was familiar with death from an early age. His mother, Sophie Dorothea Bechly, died in 1781 when he was just seven. A…

Two Men Contemplating the Moon - Caspar David Friedrich

Leinwand Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, Caspar David Friedrich aus der Kollektion Alte Meister. Sofort lieferbar als Poster, Leinwandbild, Alu-Dibond, Acrylglasbild, Holzbild und gerahmter Druck in vielen Wunschgrößen und Ausführungen. Kostenlose Lieferung für alle Wandbilder & Kunstdrucke bei ohmyprints.com.

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The original was lost in WW2. Masuyama did a great job reproducing it, I assume based on a photo. I bet Caspar David Friedrich would say so. (This is a cropped part of the image.)

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, …

Seeking to capture an experience of the infinite, Caspar David Friedrich composed works that directly confronted the viewer with the awesome. Friedrich took the genre of landscape painting, tradition…

« We visited Friedrich's atelier today. Listening to him and seeing his paintings was wonderful. He has some bonhomie which pleases people and his paintings reveal his romantic imagination. As a rule, he expresses in them one thought or feeling, though vaguely. You may meditate over his paintings but not have a clear understanding of them, for they are vague even in his soul. They are dreams or daydreams. He often employs very simple natural things, such as an ice block floating on sea…