c1824 The Watzmann oil on canvas 135 x 170 cm
1830-35 Memories of the Sudeten Mountains oil on canvas 73.5 x 102.5 cm
c1819-20 Riesengebirge Landscape with Rising Fog 54.9 x 70.4 cm
1820 Megalithic tomb in Autumn
c1820-21 The Evening oil on canvas 22 x 30.5 cm
c1820-21 The Morning oil on canvas 22 x 30.5 cm
1821 Fog in the Elbe Valley oil on canvas 33 x 43 cm
1822-23 Morning in the Mountains oil on canvas 135 x 170 cm
c1824 Rocky Reef on the Sea Shore oil on canvas 22 x 31 cm
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich’s paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs “the viewer’s gaze towards their metaphysical dimension”
Benim daha iyi tanıdığım, “tipik” Caspar David manzaralarından farklı bunlar— daha geniş açı, daha az “metafizik”…