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Caspar David Friedrich

Ankele Publishing, LLC

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Caspar David Friedrich

BORN: September 5, 1774 in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania.
DIED: May 7, 1840.

MOVEMENT: Romantic

INTERESTING FACTS:

Friedrich is considered the most important German artist of his generation.
Friedrich work was influenced by theologian Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, who taught that nature was a revelation of God.
Friedrich’s reputation as a painter was established when he won a prize in 1805 at the Weimar competition.
He was elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1810, after two of his paintings were purchased by the Prussian Crown Prince.

NOTABLE WORKS: The Cross in the Mountains, Chalk Cliffs on Rugen, The Sea of Ice, The Stages of Life.

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH Art Book contains 75+ Reproductions of Religious and Allegorical Landscapes with title and date.
Caspar David Friedrich (Taschen Basic Art)

Taschen

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A glimpse into the world of the greatest German Romantic painter. Caspar David Friedrich is considered to be a genius in the history of landscape painting and this work shows us why.
Caspar David Friedrich

Thames & Hudson

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"Splendid monograph, the first of major proportions in nearly thirty years….ever thoughtful, opening the door to Friedrich's world that much wider."—Chicago Tribune

Werner Hofmann vividly demonstrates Caspar David Friedrich's extraordinary ability to reproduce the natural world in faithful detail, while at the same time imbuing it with spiritual and religious significance. Caught between the near and the distant, the finite and the infinite, his human figures find a space in which to engage in the thoughtful contemplation of nature and the divine.

Carefully placing the artist in a wider context, Hofmann examines contemporary judgments and influences on Friedrich's work. The beautiful illustrations include many of Friedrich's drawings and watercolors as well as over ninety of his works in oils. 193 illustrations, 150 in color.
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape: Second Edition

Reaktion Books

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.” This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic.

            Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters.

            “This is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject.”—Independent

Caspar David Friedrich to Ferdinand Hodler : A Romantic Tradition : Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation

Harry N Abrams

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This book accompanies an international exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation in Winterthur, one of the finest collections of German, Austrian and Swiss art in Europe. Oskar Reinhart (1885 - 1965) presented his extraordinary collection of Northern Romantic and Realist art to the town of Winterthur, establishing a museum with over five hundred paintings and several thousand drawings. The collection opened to the public in 1951 but still remains little known outside Switzerland - paintings from the Foundation are lent only on rare occasions and the Reinhart collection has never been shown abroad. With introductory essays and detailed texts on each artist, this book surveys a rich pictorial tradition, ranging from the quiet introspection of the Romantic era and the gentle charm of Biedermeier to the robust art of Realist and Symbolist painters at the end of the century. Paintings by major artists (including Friedrich, Runge, Menzel, Bocklin, Liebermann and Hodler) are discussed alongside works by less familiar figures whose work deserves greater recognition.
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the U.S.S.R.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Friedrich Caspar David News




… and this one's by Hitler
Telegraph.co.uk - Aug 21, 2009
… and this one's by Hitler … and this one's by HitlerFortunately (for art historians and for the rest of us) the dictator was not Casper David Friedrich; but neither was he talentless … nor, indeed,

Tyler Matzek, Number One Purp?
Purple Row - Aug 21, 2009
What separates him from Friedrich is going to be the variance in his fastball. Like Ubaldo Jimenez, Matzek seems to have the ability to bounce between and more »

Complete Guide To: Bavaria
Independent - Aug 21, 2009
The great painter of melancholic German forest scenes, Caspar David Friedrich, would have been at home in the Bavarian Forest National Park between Passau

"Walking at a Guilty Distance"
Patrol Magazine - Aug 11, 2009
"Walking at a Guilty Distance" "Walking at a Guilty Distance" has to be done in a situation like this: return, like the prodigal son that I am. Art: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich.

Jonas Kaufmann: Opera's pin-up and gr...
Times Online - Aug 08, 2009
Jonas Kaufmann: Opera's pin-up and great tenor in 19th-century period garb, he is superimposed onto misty landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich, the quintessential Romantic German landscape painter.