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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. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins.
Woman at a Window is an 1822 oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. This painting is currently located in Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. [1] The painting depicts an interior with a woman, seen from behind, peering out an opened window. Beyond the window, the masts of ships are visible.
The work is a highlight of Friedrich's obsession with dark and mysterious Gothic landscapes, [5] and revisits his interest in nature and time. [6] The work is sometimes known by the title Melancholy or Melancholie, a reference to Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia I, on which it is closely modeled, and which is similar in pose and overall solemn mood.
In January 1818, Caspar David Friedrich married Christiane Caroline Bommer, who was about 20 years his junior. On their honeymoon in July and August 1818, they visited relatives in Neubrandenburg and Greifswald. From there, the couple undertook an excursion to the island of Rügen with Friedrich's brother Christian. The painting appears as a ...
Two Men Contemplating the Moon. Two Men Contemplating the Moon (German: Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes) and Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon are a series of similar paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, the setting being among his best-known works. [1] Friedrich painted at least three versions, with one variation featuring a man and ...
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. The Stages of Life (German: Die Lebensstufen) is an allegorical oil painting of 1835 by the German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. Completed just five years before his death, this picture, like many of his works, forms a meditation both on his own mortality and on the transience of life.
The Great Enclosure (German - Das Große Gehege) or The Ostra Enclosure (Ostra-Gehege) is an 1831 oil-on-canvas painting by Caspar David Friedrich, now in the collection of the Albertinum of the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. The Great Enclosure depicts a late summer sunset over the Elbe and the surrounding land, as the sun shines its last ...
Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden. [1] 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 with the conventions of landscape painting [2] by including Christian iconography.