Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich - Ruins of the Oybin Monastery, 1832

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The original was lost in WW2. Masuyama did a great job reproducing it, I assume based on a photo. I bet Caspar David Friedrich would say so. (This is a cropped part of the image.)

The Rückenfigur [figure seen from behind] is not Caspar David Friedrich’s invention, having a long history in European painting before the 19th century.

Scholars have spent centuries identifying the man in the iconic Romantic painting—and getting inside his head.

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Friedrich was born in Pomerania, then part of Sweden. He studied at the University of Greifswald and the Copenhagen Academy. He settled in Dresden, and associated with its circle of Romantic scholars and poets. He often visited his homeland and toured Germany. Friedrich established a reputation for landscape drawings and sepias before painting in oils.

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size: 24x18in Giclee Print: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818 by Caspar David Friedrich : Fine Art German painter Casper David Friedrich was considered one of the most important landscape artists of his time. Here, we see him infuse great drama and an almost spiritual significance into this powerful scene from 1818. Gothic Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) puts anti-Classical emphasis on experience. Combining the Germanic influences of literature, music and nature as…

Caspar David Friedrich was a master of Romantic landscapes. Gothic ruins, crosses, cemeteries and morning mists were his domain.