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Biography of Caspar David Friedrichborn 1774 - died 1840German Romantic painter, etcher, watercolorist and draftsman The name was often spelled as Caspar Friedrich, David Friedrich, , gaspar David Friedrich...... Student of: Christian August Lorentzen (1749-1828). The German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, b. Sept. 5, 1774, d. May 7, 1840, was one of the greatest exponents in European art of the symbolic landscape. |
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| He studied at the Academy in Copenhagen (1794-98), and subsequently settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany. Caspar Friedrich landscape paintings are based entirely on those of northern Germany and are beautiful renderings of trees, hills, harbors, morning mists, and other light effects based on a close observation of nature. | |||||||
| Some best-known Caspar David Friedrich art are expressions of a religious mysticism. In 1808 he exhibited one of most controversial his paintings, Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer, The Cross in the Mountains (Gemaldegalerie, Dresden), in which--for the first time in Christian art--an altarpiece was conceived in terms of a pure landscape. The cross, viewed obliquely from behind, is an insignificant element in the composition. More important are the dominant rays of the evening sun, which David Friedrich said depicted the setting of the old, pre-Christian world. The mountain symbolizes an immovable faith, while the fir trees are an allegory of hope. Artist Friedrich painted several other important compositions in which crosses dominate a landscape. |
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Even some of his apparently no symbolic paintings contain inner meanings, clues to which are
provided either by the artist's writings or those of his literary friends. For example,
a landscape painting showing a ruined abbey in the snow, Abbey with Oak Trees (1810; Schloss
Charlottenburg, Berlin), can be appreciated on one level as a bleak, winter scene, but
the painter Caspar David Friedrich also intended the composition to represent both the church shaken by the Reformation and the transistorizes of earthly things.
Friedrich was a prolific artist who produced more than 500 attributed works, the most famous and salable at Toperfect gallery is Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. In line with the Romantic ideals of his time, he intended his paintings to function as pure aesthetic statements, so the artist was cautious that the titles given to his work were not overly descriptive or evocative. Complications arise when dating Friedrich's work, in part because he often did not directly name or date his canvases. Casper Friedrich kept a carefully detailed notebook on his output. |
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