Caspar David Friedrich

Friedrich was born in Greifswald in northern Germany in 1774. He was a landscape painter as well as a draughtsman. He was also considered a very important painter in his time, which was the time during the nineteenth century German Romantic movement.
His works were mostly about nature, featuring silhouettes against night skies, barren trees and Gothic ruins. His symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey the spiritual experiences of life.
Although he was very well known, as Germany evolved from Romanticism to Modernization, his work had become less appreciated. His rediscovery began in 1906 in Berlin, when an exhibition displaying 32 of both his paintings and his sculptures.

Some of his works:



A walk at dusk.



The wanderer above the mists



Rocky Ravine

Source: Caspar David Friedrich, Available at: http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/ (Accessed: 2nd March 2013).