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CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH
(1774-1840)
Caspar David Friedrich was the ultimate figure of the German Romantic style in painting.
He was a man who had uncovered the mystery of landscape, and a painter of loneliness and despair, with human figures encountering the terrible majesty of nature.
Friedrich's metaphorical and anti-classical work affected many contemporaries, notably Johann Christian Dahl (1788–1857), as well as later artists such as Arnold Bocklin (1827–1901), the Russian painters Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842–1910), and Ivan Shishkin (1832–98).
Friedrich was profoundly religious and desired to paint an image that would communicate the power of God more thoroughly than through words.
His approach to painting was highly controversial at the time.
Friedrich was profoundly religious and desired to paint an image that would communicate the power of God more thoroughly than through words.
His approach to painting was highly controversial at the time.
FAMOUS QUOTES FROM CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH:"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.""Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling."