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- Caspar David Friedrich was the son of a candle-maker and soap-boiler. He was the sixth of ten children.
- He was born in Greifswald, a harbour town in Pomerania on the Baltic coast.
- Friedrich studied at the University of Greifswald (whose art department is now named the Caspar David Friedrich Institut) before moving to the Academy of Copenhagen and then settling in Dresden, where he died in 1840.
- Friedrich was elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1810, after two of his paintings were purchased by the Prussian Crown Prince.
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.
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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Mar 2, 2023 · Lady on the Staircase (c.1825) by Caspar David Friedrich. Oil on canvas. 73.6 × 52 cm. Pomeranian State Museum, Greifswald, Germany. Image source Wikimedia Commons. In 1825, Friedrich created...
When he included human figures, they are often shown from behind, so that—faceless—they serve as ‘everyman’ (Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, c.1818, Kunsthalle, Hamburg). Friedrich had a severe stroke in 1835 and returned to his small sepias.
His later years were plagued by illness, and he painted little after a stroke in 1835.
Jun 9, 2023 · The artist suffered his first stroke in 1835, impacting his ability to paint as he once did, and by 1838 he and his family were living in poverty. Caspar David Friedrich died on the May 7, 1840, in Dresden.
