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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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