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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.
May 28, 2024 · Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oakwood, (1809/10) Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 171 cm. State Museums in Berlin, National Gallery / Photo: Andres Kilger Devorah Lauter May 27, 2024 Share Share This ...
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.
Caspar David Friedrich was a leading artist of German Romanticism. In 1818 he painted "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog," which has become almost synonymous with the Romantic era. We take a...
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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.
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 ...
His later years were plagued by illness, and he painted little after a stroke in 1835. Paintings by Caspar David Friedrich Winter Landscape
