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Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter known for symbolic, contemplative depictions of nature.

He died in Dresden on 7 May 1840 and was buried in Dresden's Trinitatis-Friedhof.[1] Born on 5 September 1774 in Greifswald, which was then part of Swedish Pomerania, Caspar David Friedrich became a German Romantic landscape painter.[2][3][4]

Quick Facts

Born
5 September 1774
Birthplace
Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, Holy Roman Empire
Died
7 May 1840
Place of death
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Field
Landscape painting
Movement
German Romanticism

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Friedrich was the sixth of ten children raised in a strict Lutheran household, and his mother Sophie died when he was seven.[4][5] He began formal art study in 1790 as a private student of Johann Gottfried Quistorp at the University of Greifswald.[6] The Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich visited Friedrich's studio in 1820 and began a patronage that continued for many years.[7][8] At age 34, in 1808, Friedrich finished his first major painting, which is today known as the Tetschen Altar but was originally titled Cross in the Mountains.[9]

When Friedrich died, he was living in poverty, and his passing attracted scant notice from the artistic community.[1][10]

What the cited sources add

Updike states that German appreciation of Friedrich's talent waned after 1820, but his nationalism later won Nazi approval.[7] The J. Paul Getty Museum's 2007 exhibition overview explains that Friedrich revolutionized painting by making landscape his primary subject rather than working in the figural mode.[11] That same source states Friedrich used landscape to create a mood conveying religious meaning rather than expressing specific beliefs through traditional sacred narratives.[11] The Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut at the University of Greifswald notes that Friedrich learned in the same drawing room that formed the foundation for the institute named after him.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Whittington 2012, p. 81, 88; Hinz 1974, p. 74 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Murray 2004, p. 338 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vaughan 2004, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vaughan 2004, p. 7; Wolf 2003, p. 17 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vaughan 2004, p. 7; Wolf 2003, p. 17; Siegel 1978, p. 8; Boime 1990, p. 512 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut", University of Greifswald (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Updike, John. "Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit ". The New York Review of Books, Volume 38, Number 5, 7 March 1991. Retrieved on 22 October 2008.. facts only, no text reused. nybooks.com
  8. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Updike, John. "Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit ". The New York Review of Books, Volume 38, Number 5, 7 March 1991. Retrieved on 22 October 2008. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Koerner 2002, p. 56–61; Koerner 2002, p. 56–61 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Caspar David Friedrich" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Schmitz 1940, p. 38–40 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden ". J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2012.. facts only, no text reused. getty.edu
  12. "Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut", University of Greifswald. facts only, no text reused. cdfi.de

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Caspar David Friedrich (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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