Caspar David Friedrich was a German landscape painter for the Romanticism Movement of the nineteenth century.
As a young boy, he often encountered death through his family. First his mother died when he was only seven years old. Following that, he witnessed his brother drown from falling into an iced over lake, as well as two of his sisters who died of diseases. It is from these experiences that he associated a feeling of emptiness and somber into his art, often contemplating nature with it’s uncertainties.
One of Friedrich’s most known paintings is “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog”. The figure looks over the landscape from the heights of the mountains. The position of the figure is said that his heart is the center of the painting. “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” is renowned of being the quintessence of the Romanticism Movement. Throughout Europe, artists and writers began to find inspiration in nature, showing landscapes of their imaginations and emotions. Friedrich was of course a master of this style and played as a great authoritative in the Romanticism Movement.
Citation (since there wasn’t a lot of information on him in the “The Story of Art”)
https://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-unraveling-mysteries-caspar-david-friedrichs-wanderer
Jeff Burgess
Imogen,
Pretty good work on C D F here. Over the years you would not believe how many students chose to blog on him. He really seems to resonate with people. Also your insights to the amount of death he witnessed in his life influencing the isolating feel in his paintings is good. A bit of some grammatical issues here and there to look out for though.
Jeff