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Caspar David Friedrich

1774–1840 · Sweden · Romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich (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. Wikipedia

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Solitary figures seen from behind, gazing at mist, sea or mountains; still, silent landscapes, Gothic ruins and moonlight.

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Works

• “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”, 1818 — Hamburger Kunsthalle
• “The Monk by the Sea”, 1808 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “The Sea of Ice”, 1823 — Hamburger Kunsthalle
• “Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen”, 1818 — Kunst Museum Winterthur | Reinhart am Stadtgarten
• “The Abbey in the Oakwood”, 1809 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Life stages”, 1834 — Museum der bildenden Künste
• “Woman at a Window”, 1822 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Altarpiece Tetschen”, 1807 — Dresden State Art Collections
• “Solitary Tree”, 1822 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Sunset”, 1837 — Hermitage Museum
• “Moonrise over the Sea”, 1822 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Two men contemplating the Moon”, 1819 — Dresden State Art Collections
• “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow”, 1809 — Museum Folkwang
• “Ruins of the Oybin”, 1835 — Hermitage Museum
• “The Watzmann”, 1824 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “On a Sailing Ship”, 1818 — Hermitage Museum
• “The Port of Greifswald”, 1819 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Moonrise over the Sea”, 1821 — Hermitage Museum
• “Tombs of the Fallen in the Fight for Independence”, 1812 — Hamburger Kunsthalle
• “Woman in Front of the Setting Sun”, 1818 — Museum Folkwang
• “Neubrandenburg in Flames”, 1835 — Hamburger Kunsthalle
• “Tree of crows”, 1822 — Louvre
• “Snowy cottage”, 1827 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Morning in the Mountains”, 1822 — Hermitage Museum
• “Segelschiff”, 1815 — Art Collections Chemnitz
• “Morning in the Riesengebirge”, 1810 — Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg
• “Cairn in Snow”, 1807 — Dresden State Art Collections
• “The big enclosure”, 1832 — Dresden State Art Collections
• “Man and Woman contemplating the moon”, 1824 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “Night in a Harbour”, 1818 — Hermitage Museum
• “Swans in the reeds at the first dawn”, 1832 — Hermitage Museum
• “Memories of the Giant Mountains”, 1835 — Hermitage Museum
• “Daytime cycle: The Evening”, 1821 — Landesmuseum Hannover
• “Hutten's Grave”, 1823 — Schloss Weimar
• “Gazebo”, 1818 — Bavarian State Painting Collections
• “Temple of Juno in Agrigento”, 1828 — Museum of Art and Cultural History (Dortmund)
• “Two Men by the Sea”, 1817 — Alte Nationalgalerie
• “The ruins of Eldena in the Giant Mountains”, 1830 — Pomeranian State Museum
• “Two men contemplating the Moon”, 1820 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Neubrandenburg”, 1816–1817 — Pomeranian State Museum

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