Sunday, June 22, 2025

 <b>Caspar David Friedrich</b>
(1774- 1840)
 
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 Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich


Woman in front of Setting Sun
circa 1818
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

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