Lives of Caspar David Friedrich - Clemens Brentano, Heinrich von Kleist / Urs Luger, Caspar David Friedrich-Watzmann, J. W. von Goethe, Achim von Arni

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great visionaries of European art, spent all his life in Northern Germany, apart from four years studying in Copenhagen, and his output appears to consist almost entirely of German landscapes. But far from being parochial, he was, in the words of the French sculptor David d’Angers, the artist who ‘discovered the tragic in landscape’. His paintings assemble minutely observed elements of nature into compo­sitions that celebrate the riches and the... Zobrazit více