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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 C…
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culture · German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840) · painter · sculptor · architectural drafter · watercolorist · printmaker · draftsperson · landscape painter · etcher · also Caspar David Friedrich, Kasparov David Friedrich, Kaspar David Fridrikh, C. D. Friedrich, kaspar david friedrich, c. d. friedrich
Born 5 September 1774 · Died 7 May 1840 · Q104884
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The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
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Variant translations: The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also omit to paint that which he sees before him.
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2025· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Caspar David Friedrich Captured the Belated Moment
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2024· 5 entries
dw: Caspar David Friedrich: Master of mystery
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Bloomberg L.P.: Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
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Yahoo: Caspar David Friedrich's 'Sea of Ice' star of new Berlin exhibition
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Artnet: In a Major New Show, Caspar David Friedrich Gets Paired Up With Contemporary Artists for a Searing Portrait of Climate Change
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The Art Newspaper: Caspar David Friedrich: his rise from obscurity to fame
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1949· 1 entry
Art historian Kenneth Clark wrote that Friedrich "worked in the frigid technique of his time, which could hardly inspire a school of modern painting", and suggested that the artist was trying to express in painting what
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1934· 1 entry
The Belgian painter René Magritte (1898–1967) paid tribute in his work The Human Condition, which directly echoes motifs from Friedrich's art in its questioning of perception and the role of the viewer
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1906· 2 entries
With an exhibition of thirty-two of his paintings in Berlin
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When thirty-two of his works were featured in an exhibition in Berlin of Romantic-era art
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1857· 1 entry
He was also a friend of Georg Friedrich Kersting, and painted him at work in his unadorned studio, and of the Norwegian painter Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788–1857).
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1840· 6 entries
Died 1840-05-07.
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“The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.”
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“Variant translations: The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also omit to paint that which he sees before him.”
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“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
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“Close your eye, so that your picture will first appear before your mind's eye. Then bring to the light of day what you first saw in the inner darkness, and let it be reflected back into the minds of others.”
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“You should keep sacred every impuls of your mind; you should keep sacred every pious sentiment; because that is art in us. In an inspired hour she will appear in a clear form, and this form will be your picture.”
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1830· 1 entry
In which he explained the need for the artist to match natural observation with an introspective scrutiny of his own personality
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1829· 1 entry
That Friedrich "is surrounded by a thick, gloomy cloud of spiritual uncertainty", though the noted art historian and curator Hubertus Gassner disagrees with such notions, seeing in Friedrich's work a positive and life-af
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1824· 1 entry
It depicted a grim subject, a shipwreck in the Arctic Ocean; "the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark
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1820· 1 entry
The Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich, at the behest of his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, visited Friedrich's studio and returned to Saint Petersburg with a number of his paintings, an exchange that began a patronage that contin
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1818· 1 entry
Membership in the Saxon Academy with a yearly dividend of 150 thalers
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1816· 1 entry
Sought to distance himself from Prussian authority and applied that June for Saxon citizenship
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1809· 1 entry
Comparing the rays of the evening sun to the light of the Holy Father
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1805· 1 entry
At the Weimar competition organised by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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1801· 1 entry
To the Baltic coast, Bohemia, the Krkonoše and the Harz Mountains
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1790· 1 entry
Studied at University of Greifswald (1790).
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1774· 1 entry
Born 1774-09-05.
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