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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 with the conventions of landscape painting [ 2 ] by including Christian iconography .
Cross in the Mountains: 1808 Oil on canvas 115 x 110 cm Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago [3] Portrait of an older man [Wikidata] 1808 to 1810 Oil on canvas 51.7 x 42.4 cm Hanover: Lower Saxony State Museum: Morning mist in the Mountains [Wikidata] 1808 Oil on canvas 71 x 104 cm Rudolstadt: Heidecksburg: The Feldstein near Rathen [Wikidata] 1808
Friedrich completed the first of his major paintings in 1808, at the age of 34. Cross in the Mountains, today known as the Tetschen Altar, is an altarpiece panel said to have been commissioned for a family chapel in Tetschen, Bohemia. [21] The panel depicts a cross in profile at the top of a mountain, alone, and surrounded by pine trees. [22]
His observations culminated in a painting that depicts the sun rising over the mountains at dawn with a few notable figures and symbols. Image of the Riesengebirge Mountains. In the painting, a woman helps a man go up the mountain, and they are advancing towards a man crucified on a cross, presumably Jesus Christ. According to Werner Hoffman ...
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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 landscape with a rainbow shining above, the painting was inspired by Friedrich's travels through Germany and along the shores of the Baltic Sea in 1809.
John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National ...
A superlative example is the Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak, in the Bucegi mountains of Romania at an altitude of 2291m — the largest construction of this sort in the world (as recognized in 2013 by the Guinness World Records). Built between 1926 and 1928 to honor the fallen heroes of the First World War, great efforts were put into its ...