Caspar David Friedrich & the German Romantic Landscape
Author: Vincent Boele
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Vincent Boele
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.
Author: Linda Siegel
Publisher: Branden Books
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780828316590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. Siegel
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published:
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 5885096988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nina Amstutz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0300246161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of Friedrich’s often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs, trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book, Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in Friedrich’s mature work. Drawing connections between the artist’s anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz brings Friedrich’s work into the larger discourse surrounding art, nature, and life in the 19th century.
Author: Vincent Boele
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9789040085680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jessica Findley
Publisher: Osmora Incorporated
Published: 2014-11-03
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 2765905657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation and one of the most original geniuses in the history of landscape painting. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension". He was virtually forgotten at the time of his death and his immediate influence was confined to members of his circle in Dresden, notably Georg Friedrich Kersting, who sometimes painted the figures in Friedrich's work. It was only at the end of the 19th century, with the rise of Symbolism, that his greatness began to be recognized. Most of his work is still in Germany.
Author: Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1861897502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe’s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspective—one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not “what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.” This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic. Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters. “This is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject.”—Independent
Author: William Vaughan
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA introduction to the leading artist of the German Romantic movement of the 19th century.
Author: Charles Sala
Publisher: Vilo International
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9782879390925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of the dramatic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, precursor of the Symbolists and Surrealists.
Author: Caspar David Friedrich
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 0870996037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.