- This iconic painting, the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, is emblematic of his entire oeuvre.
- Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romanticist artist who specialised in the medium of oil painting.
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) - the most renowned Romantic painter in German art, a master of melancholic allegories and solemn majestic landscapes.
- Caspar David Friedrich, a painter of sublime sadness, was born in 1774 in Greifswald, an ancient trading town in the far north of Germany, on the Baltic coast.
- “Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important...
- Seeking to capture an experience of the infinite, Caspar David Friedrich composed works that directly confronted the viewer with the awesome.
- Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, oil on canvas by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1824; in the Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie), Berlin. 34 × 44 cm.
- May to September: Tuesday to Sunday 11.00 – 17.00. Accessibility. The Caspar David Friedrich Centre has a step-free access only to the ground floor.
- Caspar David Friedrich. Greifswald, 1774-Dresden, 1840.
- Friedrich’s new forms of landscape painting surprised and intrigued contemporary viewers, and yet, as a new show—“Caspar David Friedrich...