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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.
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 (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.
- September 5, 1774
- May 7, 1840
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.
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.
Reclusive artist Caspar David Friedrich all but lost himself in the immensity, fierceness, and awe-inspiring majesty of the natural landscapes of Germany, leading him to become one of the foremost painters of the Romantic era.
Apr 19, 2024 · To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie, in co-operation with the Kupferstichkabinettof the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is presenting its first major exhibition of the work of the most important painter of German Romanticism.
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