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Caspar David Friedrich
The Abbey in the Oakwood
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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".
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Caspar David Friedrich
Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch, The Lonely Ones, (1899). Woodcut. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Caspar David Friedrich
Paul Nash, Totes Meer
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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
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Caspar David Friedrich
Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North
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Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North (1891). 161 x 118 cm. Kiev Museum of Russian Art
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Caspar David Friedrich
Old Heroes Graves
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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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Caspar David Friedrich
The Cross Beside The Baltic
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The Cross Beside The Baltic (1815), 45 ?? 33.5 cm. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. This painting marked a move away by Friedrich from depictions in broad daylight, and a return to nocturnal scenes, twilight and a deeper poignancy of mood
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Caspar David Friedrich
Moonrise Over the Sea
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Moonrise Over the Sea (1822). 55 ?? 71 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. During the early 1820s, human figures appear with increasing frequency in the paintings. Of this period, Linda Siegel writes, "the importance of human life, particularly his family, now occupies his thoughts more and more, and his friends appear as frequent subjects in his art."[
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Oak Tree in the Snow
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The Oak Tree in the Snow (1829). 71 ?? 48 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Friedrich was one of the first artists to portray winter landscapes as stark and dead. His winter scenes are solemn and still??according to the art historian Hermann Beenken, Friedrich painted winter scenes in which "no man has yet set his foot".
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Stages of Life
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The Stages of Life (Die Lebensstufen (1835). Museum der Bildenden K??nste, Leipzig. The Stages of Life is a meditation on the artist's own mortality, depicting five ships at various distances from the shore. The foreground similarly shows five figures at different stages of life
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Giant Mountains
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The Giant Mountains (1830?C35). 72 ?? 102 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Friedrich sought not just to explore the blissful enjoyment of a beautiful view, as in the classic conception, but rather to examine an instant of sublimity, a reunion with the spiritual self through the contemplation of nature
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Caspar David Friedrich
Seashore by Moonlight
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Seashore by Moonlight (1835?C36). 134 ?? 169 cm. Kunsthalle, Hamburg. His final "black painting", Seashore by Moonlight, is described by William Vaughan as the "darkest of all his shorelines
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Wanderer above the Mists
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1817-18 Oil on canvas, 94,8 x 74,8 cm Kunsthalle, Hamburg In this painting Friedrich shows a lonely figure confronting nature in astonished reverence. Friedrich's figures who habitually turn their backs to gaze into the horizon or stare from windows with rapt attention are images of the artist. His Wanderer, frock-coated and stick in hand, has climbed to a rocky peak above swirling mountain mists; the viewer looks with his eyes, the angle of vision being exactly aligned to their level in the picture space. The foreground, the conventional plateau to give the viewer a fix on the subject, has been entirely dispensed with. Listen to Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, a piano piece composed in the same Romantic spirit as manifested by Friedrich's painting
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Caspar David Friedrich
Self-Portrait
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420 x 276 mm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Author: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Self-Portrait Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , portrait
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Caspar David Friedrich
Mother Heiden
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1798-1802 Black chalk Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald Author: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Mother Heiden Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , portrait
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Caspar David Friedrich
Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich
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Reading 1802 Black chalk, 346 x 320 mm Kunsthalle, Mannheim This drawing represents the father of the artist. Author: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, Reading Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , portrait
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Caspar David Friedrich
Cross in the Mountains
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1805-06 Pencil and sepia, 640 x 931 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin Author: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Cross in the Mountains Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , landscape
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Caspar David Friedrich
Woman before the Rising Sun
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1818-20 Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen In 1818, at the age of 44, Friedrich married Caroline Brommer, a cheerful 25 years old Saxon woman. That Caroline was a positive influence on the artist, which is evidenced by the fact that, from this point on, women appear with greater frequency in his work. A new, friendly element seems to enter his pictures. A case in point is the painting to which some authors give the title Woman before the Rising Sun, and which others call Woman before the Setting Sun. The woman seen in rear view appears as a large silhouette against the intense reddish-yellow of the sky. It is difficult to interpret the fervent gesture of her outstretched arms and the stylised rays radiating from the mountains on the hazy horizon, heralding the presence of the invisible sun. Caroline was probably the model for the female figure in old-German dress. Since she is stepping towards the light like an early Christian in prayer, some have sought to interpret the painting in terms of a communion with nature. On the other hand, the atmosphere evoked in Friedrich's painting might be interpreted as that of dusk, the path which terminates so abruptly as an announcement of death, and the boulders scattered alongside the path as symbols of faith. In the final analysis, few of Friedrich's pictures are as emphatic and almost exaggeratedly symbolic in their effect - factors which render the painting not unproblematic for the viewer. Artist: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: Woman before the Rising Sun (Woman before the Setting Sun) , painting Date: 1801-1850 German : landscape
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Watzmann
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1824-25 Oil on canvas, 135 x 170 cm Nationalgalerie, Berlin Throughout his life, Friedrich demonstrated himself to be closely attached to his home. His numerous trips and walking tours to central Germany, Silesia, Bohemia, Greifswald, Neubrandenburg and Regen never actually took him very far away. He never visited southern Germany, for example, and his painting of The Watzmann - a mountain near Berchtesgaden, portrayed here rising like a Gothic cathedral in its stone majesty - was inspired by a watercolour by his pupil August Heinrich. It also rivalled a painting by Adrian Ludwig Richter of the same title, which went on show in Dresden in 1824 and was intended to back up Richter's application for the professorship in landscape painting at the Academy, the post to which Friedrich also aspired. Despite its apparent fidelity to nature, the painting reveals a somewhat fantastical element in its mixture of different geological formations and its unnatural ratios of scale. Artist: FRIEDRICH, Caspar David Title: The Watzmann , painting Date: 1801-1850 German : landscape
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Caspar David Friedrich
The wanderer above the sea of fog
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Oil on canvas
98 x 74 cm (38.58 x 29.13 in)
1818
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Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
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Oil Painting by Caspar David Friedrich
November 1810
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Caspar David Friedrich
LandscapewithTempleinRuin
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Oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
1797
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Caspar David Friedrich
Portrait of Friedrich s Father
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Oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich.
October 1808
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Caspar David Friedrich
ReefsbytheSeashore
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Oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich
Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight
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Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight, oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich
Der Abend
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Oil painting
22 X 30.5 cm (8.7 X 12.0 in)
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Caspar David Friedrich
View of the Baltic
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View of the Baltic, oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich
Watzmann by Friedrich
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Oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich
Wreck in the Moonlight
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Wreck in the Moonlight, oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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Caspar David Friedrich
monk by the sea
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1809
oil on canvas 110x171.5cm
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Caspar David Friedrich
Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds
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oil on canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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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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