Sunset
Caspar David Friedrich · 1837
Caspar David Friedrich
Kingdom of Prussia · 1774–1840
Caspar David Friedrich 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.
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A selection of 9 works, free to stream.
Sunset
Caspar David Friedrich · 1837
State Hermitage Museum
Rocky ravine in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Caspar David Friedrich · 1822
Upper Belvedere
Sea beach in the fog
Caspar David Friedrich · 1807
Upper Belvedere
Ruins of the Oybin
Caspar David Friedrich · 1835
State Hermitage Museum
Night in a Harbour
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818
State Hermitage Museum
Easter Morning
Caspar David Friedrich · 1828
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Seashore with fisherman
Caspar David Friedrich · 1807
Upper Belvedere
The Sea of Ice
Caspar David Friedrich · 1823
Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818
Works worth knowing
3 of Caspar David Friedrich's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
Sunset
Caspar David Friedrich · 1837
State Hermitage Museum
Sunset or Brothers is an oil painting on canvas created ca. 1830 to 1835 by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich, now in the Hermitage Museum, in St Petersburg, Russia. The painting depicts two men looking at a seascape during sunset.
The Sea of Ice
Caspar David Friedrich · 1823
The Sea of Ice is an 1823 to 1824 oil-on-canvas painting by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. It depicts Friedrich's interpretation of an Arctic landscape, with a shipwreck half-buried in the ice. Its radical composition and subject matter were unusual for their time and the work was met with incomprehension.
Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen
Caspar David Friedrich · 1818
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen is an oil painting of circa 1818 by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. In January 1818, Caspar David Friedrich married Christiane Caroline Bommer, who was about 20 years his junior. On their honeymoon in July and August 1818, they visited relatives in Neubrandenburg and Greifswald.
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