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Caspar David Friedrich
The Cemetery Gate
1825-30 Oil on canvas, 31 x 25 cm
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Caspar David Friedrich
Winter Landscape
1811 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46 cm
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Caspar David Friedrich
Munk on the beach
mk234
1810
110x170cm
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Caspar David Friedrich
wanderer above the sea of fog
mk247
c.1818,oil on canvas,38.75x29.5 in,98.5x75 cm,hamburger kunsthalle,hamburg,germany
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Caspar David Friedrich
the stages of life
mk247
1834,oil on canvas,28.375x37 in,72x94 cm,museum der bildenden kunste,leipzig,germany
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Caspar David Friedrich
riesengbirge
mk248 malningen gjordes under en lycklig period i fredrcbs liv da ban ser tillbaka pa en bergsvandring som ban gjorde tjugo ar tidigare ocb minns ett fridfullt panorama, har morer bimlen borisonten i en blandning av mjuka gula ocb violetta toner som arerkommer dampat i de latta molnen ovanfor.
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Caspar David Friedrich
Chalk Cliffs on Rugen
Chalk Cliffs on Rugen, (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
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Caspar David Friedrich
Georg Friedrich Kersting
Georg Friedrich Kersting, Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio (1819). 51 ?? 40 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Kersting portrays an aged Friedrich holding a maulstick at his canvas.
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Caspar David Friedrich
The Sea of Ice
The Sea of Ice (1823?C24), Kunsthalle Hamburg. This scene has been described as "a stunning composition of near and distant forms in an Arctic image
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Caspar David Friedrich
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1830?C35). 34 ?? 44 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. In this work, the artist depicts a couple gazing longingly at nature, in "Old German" clothes, "scarcely different in tone or modelling from the deep dramas of nature around them
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Caspar David Friedrich
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".
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Caspar David Friedrich
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, The Lonely Ones, (1899). Woodcut. Munch Museum, Oslo
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Caspar David Friedrich
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
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Caspar David Friedrich
Ivan Shishkin, In the Wild North
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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