Archive for posts tagged with ‘Caspar’


Apr 8 2011

Klosterruine Eldena, David Caspar Friedrich, 1825

German / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

Klosterruine Eldena, David Caspar Friedrich, 1825

This is a reproduction of “Eldena Monastary Ruins” of 1825 by David Caspar Friedrich.  This masterpiece was produced by the German master when he was forty-nine years old.  It vividly shows the Romanticism which characterized this most influential German artist of his generation.  His bias against Classicism expressed itself in a symbolic representation of Nature and its wonders.  He sought to encourage a sense of contemplative awe of the Natural which would lead the participant into a spiritual awareness of the universe.  The artist died in 1840.  The original painting is 49 cm wide and 35 cm high and is in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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Apr 2 2011

Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830

German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

Two Men Contemplating the Moon, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830

This is a reproduction of “Zwei Manner in Betrachtung des Mondes” of 1830 by Caspar David Friedrich.  This oil on canvas is part of the revolution Friedrich started in the art world, the movement known as Romanticism.  He was fifty-six years old when this was painted.  The artist is the figure on the right and is accompanied by his younger colleague August Heinrich.  They are both in older styled dress which was a mode of expressing disapproval of the conservative policies in effect in Post-Napoleonic Germany.  The original work is 43.8 cm by 34.9 cm and is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Nov 4 2010

Abbey in the Oakwood, Caspar David Friedrich, 1809

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Abbey in the Oakwood, Caspar David Friedrich, 1809

This German Romantic masterpiece was painted by Caspar David Friedrich. The painting is typical of Friedrich’s work in his feeling of loneliness which earned him the epithet, “the taciturn man from the North”. He began the work at the age of thirty-four years. The depressed and profound aspect of the artist’s personality manifests itself in this dramatic work. It is currently housed in the Nationalgalerie, Staalichte Museen zu Berlin.

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Oct 30 2010

Landscape with Solitary Tree by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

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Landscape with Solitary Tree by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822

This is a reproduction of Caspar David Friedrich’s “Landscape with Solitary Tree” of 1822. This work represents the quintessence of the German Romantic movement in its concentration on landscapes. This particular artist attempts to lend a poetic nature to his images. His use of trees are symbolic of the strength of the German people in their eternal search for freedom. The artist died in 1840 at the age of sixty-six years and this work is currently housed in the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

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