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Caspar David Friedrich was the sixth child of Greifswald soap boiler and chandler Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich and his wife, Sophie Dorothea. She died in 1781, and one of his sisters died a year later.
Caspar David Friedrich was born the sixth of ten children in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic Sea. He grew up under the strict Lutheran creed of his father Adolf Gottlieb, a prosperous candle-maker and soap boiler. Friedrich had an early familiarity with death: his mother, Sophie Dorothea Bechly, died in 1781 when Caspar David was ...
Before he took up painting in 1807, Caspar David Friedrich had already created some of the most fascinating landscape drawings of his time. This exceptionally large sheet from about 1805-6 is based on sketches made on the island of Rügen, in the Baltic Sea, not far from the artist’s birthplace.
Caspar David Friedrich ( Greifswald, 1774. szeptember 5. – Drezda, 1840. május 7.) a német korai romantika egyik alapítója és legjelentősebb festője Philipp Otto Runge mellett. Műveinek tárgya gyakran a természet volt, festményei azonban a tájat metafizikus - transzcendens módon ábrázolták.
Mar 18, 2024 · Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (ca. 1817), with its enigmatic figure standing on a craggy rock surveying the misty landscape in front of him, is an icon of the Romantic art movement.
94.8 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in) Location. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through ...
Caspar David Friedrich, Munk ved havet, 1808 eller 1810, Alte Nationalgalerie Tekniske undersøgelser med infrarødt lys har vist, at Friedrich oprindelig havde tænkt at vise flere skibe på havet, men har udeladt dem i malefasen. Under en omfattende restaurering og rensning af den gamle, stærkt gulnede fernis (afsluttet i 2015) er billedets ...
