Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840)
Caspar David Friedrich, born in Greifswald, a port on the Baltic Sea. Friedrich studied at the Academy of Copenhagen from 1794 to 1798. He concentrated on landscape painting and acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature. In 1798, he moved to Dresden, which was by then the centre of the literary Romantic Movement in Germany. He met Goethe in 1805 when he won a prize for two drawings in a competition sponsored by the poet and became committed to the Romantic Movement.
Many of his scenes are bleak, peopled by small, anonymous figures that stand in awe and contemplation of nature. In 1816, he entered the Dresden Academy, becoming an assistant professor in 1824. He died in Dresden. |
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