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Nineteenth-century German "romantic landscape artist, Caspar David Friedrich was born on Sept. 5, 1774, in Greifswald, candle maker, Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich Sophia Dorothea Bechly. At age thirteen, Gaspar had lost his mother, sister and brother.

His artistic career began with his coach Johann Gottfried Quistrop, a friend of "Romantic poet Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. Friedrich Ludwig presented" Romanticism "and wanted to develop their own capacity analysis of picturesque scenery. Ludwig himself fascinated by "megaliths" in architecture, Friedrich encouraged to make room for local megaliths "as artistic subjects. From 1794 to 1798, the painter studied at the Copenhagen Academy, focusing solely on understanding the subtleties of "landscape painting.

In 1798, Friedrich migrated toward the center of German romanticism, Dresden. There he met the painter Philipp Otto Runge and poets Novalis and Ludwig Tieck. Furthermore, by Friedrich inroads etchings and engravings in wood engravings, which were designed exclusively for friends close to him. In 1805, the artist was awarded a prize for two of his "drawings , Sepia, "" Procession of the Dawn "and" Fisher-Folk by the Sea "in a contest of Weimar.

Friedrich first major painting, "The Cross in the Mountains (1807), "a panel altarpiece, painted a crucified Christ in the midst of a natural environment. This painting has become forerunner, as, for the first time, an altarpiece landscapes. Another of his works, under the oak forest Abbey (1809-10), "centered on a scene of death was given to the Berlin Academy in 1810. During this period, the "mystical" style of painting Caspar David surrounded by a mix of "romantic realism 'and'. In his" paintings allegorical landscapes, figures appear inconsistent contemplative love the vastness of nature, and frozen in its mystery. In his play "Monk by the Sea (1809)," describes a solitary figure, exposed to the sensational sounds of the vast sea

In 1816, Friedrich entered the Dresden Academy and served in the position assistant professor in 1824. On January 21, 1818, married Caroline Bommer, then began to exhibit his paintings a transition to a more "figurative". This change was a direct result of changes in personal circumstances Gaspar, where he began to attach greater importance to human life and relationships.

Friedrich career as a painter has flourished under the patronage of Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich and the poet Vasily Zhukovsky. During his later years, his paintings have been criticized for being too dark and emotionless. For this reason, its popularity suffered. His work during this period were mainly representatives of ship and port scenes, while some of them deal with the life cycle of man. Its melancholy mood that prevailed at the time, was symbolized in his paintings, which often relied Topics on the threshold between life and death.

In 1835, Caspar David suffered a stroke which left him unable to paint later. He died five years afternoon, May 7, 1840. There was one exception in his time, his work touches the heart strings of the viewer's innate romantic. At all times, considered himself as interpreter of the glory of nature. The most beautiful works of Caspar David Friedrich are "old graves of Heroes (1812)," the cross, near the Sea Baltic (1815), "" Moonrise on the sea (1822), "in the Cemetery (1826) Snow," "The oak tree in the snow (1829), and La Costa moonlight (1835-36). "

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