Friedrich

. Oil on canvas. 68.6 x 53.3 cms | 27 x 21 ins. Hermitage, Russian Federation

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Friedrich was born in Pomerania, then part of Sweden. He studied at the University of Greifswald and the Copenhagen Academy. He settled in Dresden, and associated with its circle of Romantic scholars and poets. He often visited his homeland and toured Germany. Friedrich established a reputation for landscape drawings and sepias before painting in oils.

In this post, I take a closer look at Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. It is an iconic work of Romanticism that features a man standing on the edge of the rocky terrain, looking out over the foggy landscape. Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818 Key Facts and Ideas It is also referred to as Wanderer Above the Mist or Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape. The identity of the man is uncertain. Some have suggested it is a self-portrait of the artist…

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world…

This HD wallpaper is about Caspar David Friedrich, Gothic, painting, landscape, Original wallpaper dimensions is 4000x2563px, file size is 1.3MB

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Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840. Lever de lune sur l'Océan. Moon rise over the ocean. Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie

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Caspar David Friedrich was a master of Romantic landscapes. Gothic ruins, crosses, cemeteries and morning mists were his domain.