Caspar David Friedrich
Also known as Kasparov David Friedrich, Kaspar David Fridrikh, C. D. Friedrich, kaspar david friedrich, c. d. friedrich, Friedrich Caspar David
German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)
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Caspar David Friedrich was a German painter from the Romantic era (1774–1840) who became famous for his dramatic landscape paintings that often featured solitary figures gazing at nature. His work matters because he helped define Romantic art by emphasizing emotion, spirituality, and humanity's relationship with the natural world, influencing how landscape painting was understood in European art.
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- Born
- 1774
- Died
- 1840
- Works
- 53
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- Auf den Spuren von Caspar David Friedrich
- Nel solitario cerchio
- John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837), Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
- Märchen aus dem Norden
- Caspar David Friedrich Gemalde, Druckgraphik Und Bildmassige Zeichnungen
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Caspar David Friedrich, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Caspar David Friedrich ( German: [ˌkaspaʁ ˌdaːvɪt ˈfʁiːdʁɪç] ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
Friedrich was born in the town of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea in what was at the time Swedish Pomerania. He studied in Copenhagen from 1794 to 1798, before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. This shift was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable sought to depict nature as a "divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization".
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