Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands
The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...
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250 years of Caspar David Friedrich on show in Berlin
Caspar David Friedrich was the sixth child of Greifswald ... who had broken through ice while skating. Of the painter's nine siblings, only five survived to adulthood. In 1790, Friedrich began ...
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The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time review – An intriguing take on the life and work of the German painter
Back in the German Romantic period of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, Caspar David Friedrich was your rückenfigur go-to. In his most famous work, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818), a ...