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Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

Caspar David Friedrich (German:[ˌkaspaʁˌdaːvɪtˈfʁiːdʁɪç]^ⓘ; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romanticlandscape 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 1794-1798, before settling in Dresden. He came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing di

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Artist Caspar David Friedrich

"Caspar David Friedrich was born in 1774 and is probably the greatest German Romantic painter. He has also become one of the most highly regarded artists in the history of landscape painting. Friedrich was born on the Baltic coast, in Greifswald, and studied at the Copenhagen Academy. Thereafter he settled in Dresden, where he lived a quiet and introspective life, relying on deep contemplation to summon up many of the images he later depicted on canvas. He began his artistic career as a topographical draftsman and did not begin to paint in oil until 1807. Thereafter he rapidly acquired a major reputation, not least because of his unusual choice of subject matter and his painting of aspects of nature which had not previously been considered appropriate, including endless stretches of mountains or sea, or foggy landscapes seen in unusual lights. The landscapes he painted thus often included a sense which has been described as “haunting spirituality”. Towa

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Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald on 5 September 1774. It is fair to say that, together with Hans Fallada and Wolfgang Koeppen, Friedrich is Greifswald’s most famous son. At the time, Greifswald totalled only a tenth of its present population, that is to say 5.000 inhabitants, and there were 60 students enrolled at the University, then under Swedish rule. Friedrich lived in Greifswald until he was 20 years old and later studied in Copenhagen, before settling permanently in Dresden. He did, however, maintain a close link with his native town Greifswald and the surroundings throughout his life. Countless visits to Greifswald and walking-tours of the area demonstrate this vividly, as can be seen most impressively in his drawings and paintings of the city’s landmarks.
People all over the world are familiar with and fascinated by his paintings of the ruins of Eldena Abbey, the market square and the silhouette of Greifswald. They have become icons of Romantic landsc