Friedrich, Caspar David

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Basic data

  1. September 5, 1774 in Greifswald
  2. May 7, 1840 in Dresden
  3. Maler, Zeichner
  4. Dresden

Iconography

Gerhard von Kügelgen's portrait of Friedrich, c. 1808, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Source: Wikimedia)
Caspar David Friedrich, by Christian Gottlieb Kuhn (1807), Albertinum, Dresden (Source: Wikimedia)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), Kunsthalle Hamburg (Source: Wikimedia)
Landscape with Pavilion (1797). This early work shows typical themes: ragged landscape, closed gate, building of uncertain purpose. (Source: Wikimedia)
Self-portrait (1800) is a chalk drawing of the artist at 26, completed while he was studying at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (Source: Wikimedia)
Cross in the Mountains (Tetschen Altar) (1808). 115 × 110.5 cm. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden. Friedrich's first major work, the piece breaks with the traditional representation of crucifixion in altarpieces by depicting the scene as a landscape. (Source: Wikimedia)
Rocky Landscape in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (1822–1823) (Source: Wikimedia)
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818). 90.5 × 71 cm. Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur, Switzerland. Friedrich married Christiane Caroline Bommer in 1818, and on their honeymoon they visited relatives in Neubrandenburg and Greifswald. This painting celebrates the couple's union.[30] (Source: Wikimedia)
Cemetery Entrance, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden (Source: Wikimedia)
The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–1810). 110.4 × 171 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Albert Boime writes, "Like a scene from a horror movie, it brings to bear on the subject all the Gothic clichés of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."[50] (Source: Wikimedia)
The Sea of Ice (1823–1824), Kunsthalle Hamburg. This scene has been described as "a stunning composition of near and distant forms in an Arctic image".[55] (Source: Wikimedia)
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (c. 1824). 34 × 44 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. A couple gaze longingly at nature. Dressed in "Old German" clothes, according to Robert Hughes, they are "scarcely different in tone or modelling from the deep dramas of nature around them".[59] (Source: Wikimedia)
Caspar David Friedrich, by Carl Johann Baehr (1836). New Masters Gallery, Dresden (Source: Wikimedia)
Edvard Munch, The Lonely Ones (1899). Woodcut. Munch Museum, Oslo (Source: Wikimedia)
Paul Nash, Totes Meer (Sea of the Dead), 1940–41. 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).[73] (Source: Wikimedia)
Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North (1891). 161 x 118 cm. Kyiv National Art Gallery (Source: Wikimedia)

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