Caspar David Friedrich

1774-1840 Caspar David Friedrich Locations German painter, studied art at Copenhagen, and in 1798 settled in Dresden. Friedrich painted chiefly landscapes and seascapes, with and without figures, architectural pictures, including a few of Dresden, and some religious subjects. Religious feeling and symbolism permeate his œuvre, of which the seascape with figures, Die Lebensstufen, is a characteristic example. He possessed considerable power to convey mood in landscape. Almost forgotten in the 19th c. and early 20th c., interest in his work increased considerably in the mid-20th c. He is hardly represented in Britain, but an exhibition of 112 of his pictures at the Tate Gallery in 1972 attracted much attention. F. G. Kersting was a friend of Friedrich.
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Caspar David Friedrich The Abbey in the Oakwood oil


The Abbey in the Oakwood
Painting ID::  58868 		The Abbey in the Oakwood
The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808?C10). 110.4 ?? 171 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. This painting has been described as like "a scene from a horror movie, it [forebears] all the Gothic clich??s of the late 18th and early 19th centuries".
   
   
     
Caspar David Friedrich Edvard Munch oil


Edvard Munch
Painting ID::  58869 		Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, The Lonely Ones, (1899). Woodcut. Munch Museum, Oslo
   
   
     
Caspar David Friedrich Paul Nash, Totes Meer oil


Paul Nash, Totes Meer
Painting ID::  58870 		Paul Nash, Totes Meer
Paul Nash, Totes Meer (Sea of the Dead), 1940?C41. 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Tate Gallery. Nash's work depicts a graveyard of crashed German planes comparable to The Sea of Ice (above). Nash described the image as a sea, even suggesting that the jagged forms were not metal but ice
   
   
     
Caspar David Friedrich Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North oil


Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North
Painting ID::  58871 		Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North
Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North (1891). 161 x 118 cm. Kiev Museum of Russian Art
   
   
     
Caspar David Friedrich Old Heroes Graves oil


Old Heroes Graves
Painting ID::  58873 		Old Heroes Graves
Old Heroes' Graves, (1812), 49.5 x 70.5 cm. Kunsthalle, Hamburg. A dilapidated monument inscribed "Arminius" invokes the Germanic chieftain, a symbol of nationalism, while the four tombs of fallen heroes are slightly ajar, freeing their spirits for eternity. Two French soldiers appear as small figures before a cave, lower and deep in a grotto surrounded by rock, as if farther from heaven.
   
   
     
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     1774-1840 Caspar David Friedrich Locations German painter, studied art at Copenhagen, and in 1798 settled in Dresden. Friedrich painted chiefly landscapes and seascapes, with and without figures, architectural pictures, including a few of Dresden, and some religious subjects. Religious feeling and symbolism permeate his œuvre, of which the seascape with figures, Die Lebensstufen, is a characteristic example. He possessed considerable power to convey mood in landscape. Almost forgotten in the 19th c. and early 20th c., interest in his work increased considerably in the mid-20th c. He is hardly represented in Britain, but an exhibition of 112 of his pictures at the Tate Gallery in 1972 attracted much attention. F. G. Kersting was a friend of Friedrich.

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