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Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.
This is an incomplete list of works by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) by completion date where known. Friedrich was a prolific artist who produced over 500 attributed works; however, he is generally known for only a small number of works seen as emblems of Romanticism. [1]
The Stages of Life (German: Die Lebensstufen) is an allegorical oil painting of 1835 by the German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. Completed just five years before his death, this picture, like many of his works, forms a meditation both on his own mortality and on the transience of life. The painting is set on a sea shore and ...
Sep 1, 2024 · Caspar David Friedrich was one of the leading figures of the German Romantic movement. His vast, mysterious, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes proclaimed human helplessness against the forces of nature and did much to establish the idea of the Sublime as a central concern of Romanticism.
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) The National Gallery, London. (b Greifswald, 5 Sept. 1774; d Dresden, 7 May 1840). The greatest German Romantic painter and one of the most original geniuses in the history of landscape painting.
Mar 18, 2024 · Caspar David Friedrich ’s The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (ca. 1817), with its enigmatic figure standing on a craggy rock surveying the misty landscape in front of him, is an icon of the Romantic art movement.
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Caspar David Friedrich. 1774 - 1840. Friedrich was born in Pomerania, then part of Sweden. He studied at the University of Greifswald and the Copenhagen Academy. He settled in Dresden, and associated with its circle of Romantic scholars and poets. He often visited his homeland and toured Germany.
