Caspar David Friedrich
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The Cross Beside The Baltic new20/Caspar David Friedrich-992883.jpg Painting ID:: 58875
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The Cross Beside The Baltic (1815), 45 ?? 33.5 cm. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. This painting marked a move away by Friedrich from depictions in broad daylight, and a return to nocturnal scenes, twilight and a deeper poignancy of mood |
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Moonrise Over the Sea new20/Caspar David Friedrich-682322.jpg Painting ID:: 58876
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Moonrise Over the Sea (1822). 55 ?? 71 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. During the early 1820s, human figures appear with increasing frequency in the paintings. Of this period, Linda Siegel writes, "the importance of human life, particularly his family, now occupies his thoughts more and more, and his friends appear as frequent subjects in his art."[ |
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The Oak Tree in the Snow new20/Caspar David Friedrich-466486.jpg Painting ID:: 58878
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The Oak Tree in the Snow (1829). 71 ?? 48 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Friedrich was one of the first artists to portray winter landscapes as stark and dead. His winter scenes are solemn and still??according to the art historian Hermann Beenken, Friedrich painted winter scenes in which "no man has yet set his foot". |
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The Stages of Life new20/Caspar David Friedrich-846366.jpg Painting ID:: 58879
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The Stages of Life (Die Lebensstufen (1835). Museum der Bildenden K??nste, Leipzig. The Stages of Life is a meditation on the artist's own mortality, depicting five ships at various distances from the shore. The foreground similarly shows five figures at different stages of life |
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The Giant Mountains new20/Caspar David Friedrich-937725.jpg Painting ID:: 58880
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The Giant Mountains (1830?C35). 72 ?? 102 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Friedrich sought not just to explore the blissful enjoyment of a beautiful view, as in the classic conception, but rather to examine an instant of sublimity, a reunion with the spiritual self through the contemplation of nature |
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