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- Friedrich rejected the decorative conventions of landscape painting in favor of Romanticism’s concept of the sublime. The artist expressed the immense force and permanence of the natural environment through his careful portrayals of mist, fog, gloom, and light; the observer is physically aware of his frailty and pointlessness.
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Friedrich created the idea of a landscape full of romantic feeling—die romantische Stimmungslandschaft. [51] His art details a wide range of geographical features, such as rock coasts, forests and mountain scenes, and often used landscape to express religious themes.
Friedrich’s precise handling of paint derives from his training as a draughtsman and topographical artist. Infrared photography shows detailed underdrawing in most areas of the picture. The structure of the cathedral, especially, was defined in detail, possibly in pencil overlaid with ink.
- September 5, 1774
- May 7, 1840
- The Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altar) Commonly referred to as The Tetschen Altar, Friedrich's The Cross in the Mountains features a pine-covered mountaintop upon which stands a large crucifix.
- Morning Mist in the Mountains. This simple painting of a mountain peak awash in a white mist of early dawn fog, surrounded by barely discernable pine trees and rocky outcroppings manifests Friedrich's ideals of the Romantic landscape.
- The Monk by the Sea. Arguably one of Friedrich's most important and well-known works in his oeuvre, this painting launched the artist to international fame when it was exhibited with The Abbey in the Oak Woods (1808-10) at an 1810 art exhibition in Berlin.
- The Abbey in the Oak Wood. A study in subtle colors, rendered in soft shades of browns, yellows, and white, this painting depicts the crumbling remains of a Gothic abbey set amongst a field of barren leafless trees.
Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
- September 5, 1774
- May 7, 1840
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 22, 2020 · In the mid 20th century, Friedrich’s reputation was under assault again, this time as a result of his landscapes being co-opted into the blood-and-soil propaganda of the Nazis. He did paint one explicit picture, in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars; an image of a lone French chasseur lost in the German forests.
Feb 13, 2024 · It was on one of these liberating, follow-my-nose trips around the National Gallery in London that I stumbled, serendipitously, upon Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Friedrich. Friedrich, who was born 250 years ago this coming May, is nowadays synonymous with German romanticism.
