Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter who lived from 1774 to 1840 and is generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. His symbolic, anti-classical paintings convey a subjective, emotional response to nature, often placing contemplative human figures against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins, as in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and The Sea of Ice. His reputation declined after his death but revived from 1906 onward, and he influenced Expressionist, Surrealist and Existentialist art before becoming recognized as a central figure of German Romanticism and a national cultural icon.
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Caspar David Friedrich (German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ; 5 September 1774 - 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world.
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Cross in the Mountains, also known as the Tetschen Altar, is an oil painting by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich designed as an altarpiece. Among Friedrich's first major works, the 1808 painting marked an important break w
The Lonely Tree (Wikipedia)
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The Lonely Tree (German: Der einsame Baum, sometimes translated as "The Solitary Tree") is an 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich. It measures 55 × 71 centimetres (22 × 28 in). The work depicts a p
The Abbey in the Oakwood (Wikipedia)
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The Abbey in the Oakwood (German: Abtei im Eichwald) is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It was painted between 1809 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with the painting The Monk
The Tree of Crows (Wikipedia)
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The Tree of Crows (also known as Raven Tree) is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1822. Acquired by the Louvre in 1975 (the institution's first acquisition of a work by the artist, followed
Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (Wikipedia)
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Mountain Landscape with Rainbow (German: Gebirgslandschaft mit Regenbogen), is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, from 1809-1810. Depicting a traveler who has stopped to view a mountainous landsc
The Watzmann (Wikipedia)
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Woman at a Window (Wikipedia)
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Morning on the Riesengebirge (Wikipedia)
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