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Artist: Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)
Nationality: German
Movement: Romanticism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Caspar David Friedrich attended Copenhagen Academy from 1794 to 1798. He then returned to his home country, Germany, and settled in Berlin. Friedrich won a Weimar Art Society prize in 1805 for his pen and ink drawings. In 1807, he was commissioned by Count Thun to create an altarpiece for his castle in Teschen, Silesia, which Friedrich titled Crucifixion in Mountain Scenery. He was given a teaching position at the Dresden Academy in 1824 where his influence many future German artists. Friedrich’s work mostly consisted of expressive, and dramatic landscapes with emotional undertones

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Haus der Kunst: The Romantic Johan Christian Dahl
Dahl’s painting style conveys feelings of vehemence, dynamism, and rousing emotion. But he does not intensify them allegorically – he does not encode or encrypt anything. In contrast to Caspar David Friedrich, he invokes no deeper levels of meanin...
National Gallery: Spirit of an Age: 19th-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The Nationalgalerie was designed to provide a showcase for contemporary German art. To...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: Visions from the Soul: Woodcuts by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing ...
National Gallery of Art: Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X (1998-2001), by Frank Stella Installed
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X is one of the great sculptures of our age and will complement the family of Stella's works that we already have in the ...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
National Gallery of Canada: Balti Light
The contribution of artists such as Casper David Friedrich, C.W. Eckersberg, Carl Blechen, Friedrich Wasmann and Johan Christian Dahl, was to be found in their new and original ...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: KINGDOM OF THE SOUL: GERMAN SYMBOLIST ART EXHIBITION (1870-1920)
The exhibition of over 180 paintings, drawings and sculptures contains many previously unseen works by largely unknown artists such as Georg Kolbe, Fri...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: oots of Creativity: Landscapes by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger, but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing...
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Darren Almond: Passing and Past Time
His investigations often take him to remote parts of the world such as the Arctic and the Antarctic. These journeys have produced two films and two series of photographs which are being shown in K21 for the first time. Almond’s engagements ...
Museum of Modern Art: Mies in Berlin: Mies van der Rohe's German Work and Other Projects in Europe
Mies is best known today as the leading and most influential exponent of the refined glass-and-steel architecture of mid-20th-century architecture ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
Site Gallery: Frozen: Contemporary Snowscapes by Six Artists
The exhibition includes Mariele Neudecker's stereoscopic projections of modelled snow-topped mountains which refer to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, Neal Begg's manipulated maps transformed to record the actual mountain snowline, Chloe ...
Northern Illinois University Art Gallery in Chicago: What’s Wrong - Open the Door...
The installation consists of 35 framed panels of layered text and photographic images that illustrate the film sequence, coupled with specific phrases that reference coincidences and occurrences, like We Represent Ourselves to the World, a stateme...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Romantics, Realists, Revolutionaries: 19th-Century German Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
For several reasons, the MFAH is a natural venue to showcase 19th-century German art from the Leipzig Museum. Perhaps the most compelling reason is ...
National Gallery of Art: Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
The museum, which opened in 1876 to house the Prussian king's collection of paintings and sculpture, is currently closed for renovations as part of a larger ...
Hague Center for Visual Arts, Stroom hcbk: A Day in Holland / Holland in a Day: Photos and Video Works by Barbara Visser
The visitors of House Ten Bosch Stad are also treated to a number of special events, like a highly stylized version of the big flood in Zeeland. This formed the inspiration for her new video work 'The Big Flood Zeeland 1953 / Japan 2001'. <...
Crow Collection: The Lost Buddhas of Bamiyan: Photographs by Volker
According to Thewalt: „The construction of the monasteries and cells was started under Kanishka, the Kushan emperor, in the second century. Stylistically, the Buddhas and the decoration of the monasteries around them are a mixture of Greco-Roman a...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: David Hall: Moon Window
David Hall's previous work showed various urban settings which presented vestiges of the negative impact of human presence on the environment, thus implying a passage of time. Throughout his body of work, the artist has continuously been interest...
Cafe Gallery Project: Destiny Manifest Eden's End: Cathy Ward and Eric Wright
Manifest destiny was a term first expressed by John L. O'Sullivan and used to describe the belief of the 1840's in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States: .... and that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to over spr...
Sprengel Museum: The Strongest Expression Of Our Time - New Objectivity / Neue Sachlichkeit in Hanover
The Strongest Expression Of Our Time were the words Grethe Jürgens used in 1932 to characterise the simple clarity with which social commentary appeared as images of workers, average people and those who had lost their s...
Contemporary Art Society: Ben Fitton: La Barricade de la Rue Basfroi
For The Economist Plaza, the outline of the trellis panels is extracted directly from a photograph taken on the first day of the insurrection that led to the formation of the Paris Commune in 1871. A group of men, soldiers, pose before, atop and ...
Guggenheim: Foerg: Deutsche Bank Collection
ANNIVERSARYSince the middle of last year, the show with Günther Förgs works from the Deutsche Bank Collection has been on exhibition at European bank branches, selected art associations and museums. Every fortnight, the art journ...
Compose Art Gallery: Ruth Thomas Edmond, Clay Bodvin and Brett Culbert
The variety, flavour and impact is extraordinary. For example, with Raw Materials (Still Life in Waiting) #2 a free-floating arrangement of exotic flowers is shown as a 60cm sq inkjet print. Opposite this is a 90cm sq, oil painted, marouflage-pane...
Stedelijk Museum: Mandarin Ducks: Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij
A distinctive feature of the Venice presentation of Mandarin Ducks was the spatial situation in which there was a relation between the light and architecture of the Rietveld Pavilion in the Giardini of the Biennale, and the set used in making the ...
Ketterer Kunst: Spring Auctions Begin With Modern Art on Paper in Hamburg
Nu pour Cleveland was made 14 years earlier. This signed engraving of 1932 by Henri Matisse is more than just an appreciation of femininity. It is estimated at DM 15,000 - 17,000. Another outstanding work of the auction is Marc Chagalls Piro...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell
Although the concept of the sublime is most often identified with nineteenth-century Romanticism, the first century CE philosopher Longinus is credited with one of the earliest discussions. In On t...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...
Museum Tinguely: Kurt Schwitters. MERZ – a total vision of the world
In 1919 he invented his own artistic movement, Merz; the term is taken from the bank name "Kommerz- und Privatbank". From now on he grouped together all aspects of his very varied artistic activities – painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, dr...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Drawn to Art: Art Education and the American Experience, 1800-1950
Among the 79 objects on display in the West Hall of the Library are vintage paint boxes, Victorian-era coloring books, stencil kits, slates, tracing books, drawing manuals, crayons and colored pencils, books on educational theory, and a Chautau...

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