Quick Facts About Caspar David Friedrich
- Born
- September 5, 1774
- Died
- May 7, 1840
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Profession
- Painter
- Notable works
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Known for
- The Sea of Ice, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, The Abbey in the Oakwood, The Monk by the Sea, Chalk Cliffs at Ruegen
- Spouse
- Caroline Friedrich
About Caspar David Friedrich
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".
Biography source:
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