Caspar David Friedrich – German Romanticism (1774 – 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was born on the 5th of September in 1774 in Greifswald (Pomerania). From 1794 he attended the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. In 1798 he moved to Dresden, where he was represented only one year later at exhibition of the academy. In 1810 he became a member of the Academy of Berlin and in 1816 of the Academy of Dresden. During the following years Tsar Nikolaus I. was one of his most important employers. Friedrich fell ill and had to abandon his painting completely in 1835. Already with his dead on 07th of May in 1840 in Dresden he was fallen into oblivion. Only with the beginning of the 20th century his art works became considered.

Especially Friedrich falls into the most important painters of the German Romanticism. He was able to express the ideals of this period in his realistic and sentimental landscapes and to reflect atmospheres very faithful. In his art works he creates a fantastic never ending vastness.

© Hardy Schulz, Hamburg